Word: grandest
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Debates are the grandest way to size up politicians: what they think, how they act under pressure, how they retort spontaneous jabs that get past the moderators. Questions, even if predictable, help set a baseline for a campaign and provide a chance for the electorate to see the candidates in close quarters. It is an opportunity to see which, if any, issues divide the candidates within a party, and a chance for candidates to break out of assumed norms and take risks. Debates are unpredictable, a fact alone that might help encourage the media to turn their attention to issues...
...deal. Probably. This year anyway. Oh, heck, at least before our next issue hits the stands. That seems safe. He keeps saying he's done, hedging ever so slightly, and then proving himself wrong. It's either a rare lapse of vision for this self-made billionaire or the grandest ongoing head fake in the entertainment industry...
...much cheaper to distribute movies digitally, rather than printing film and shipping it to movie theaters, that both Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers view the Net as the grandest gigaplex of them all--though they haven't sorted out who will benefit the most. Last week Adam Sandler's people said the funnyman would be doing the main voice for a free, Net-only animation, The Peeper, due out next month at WarnerBros.com And Metafilmics, producer of Robin Williams' $100 million-grossing 1998 film What Dreams May Come, revealed plans to produce a movie, The Quantum Project, which will...
...work by Barney is something of an event in the contemporary art world, and a more unlikely looking event would be hard to find than the newest installment in his projected five-part "Cremaster" series--the first three done as videos and now the latest, and perhaps grandest, finished as a full-scale 35-mm film. Never one for the obvious or linear, Barney has dropped this piece into the sequence as Cremaster 2. On view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn., through Oct. 17, the 79-min. film and the morgue-cold installation of objects that accompanies...
Late 20th century entrepreneurs have invented high-adrenaline sports--hang-gliding, say, or canyoning. But the riskiest adventure is still to set forth upon open water and take a chance when, as the great single-handed sailor Joshua Slocum wrote a century ago, "the sea is in its grandest mood...