Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolfe today is regarded as neither literary genius nor social success. Both his writing and his behavior are seen to have suffered from gargantuan excess. Donald, however, reveals a man whose literary genius draws its very strength from social excess, from the ability to experience and emote on a grand scale. He reveals a man who, according to one of his lovers, was "intolerable and wonderful and talked like an angel and was a real son-of-a-bitch...
...will face what, for a man of his reclusive temperament, might seem the worst ordeal of all: testifying before television cameras for the congressional select committees investigating Iranscam. And though he will be granted limited immunity, there is still a possibility that Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh may ask a grand jury to indict him on the basis of evidence gathered before the congressional questioning begins. Rumors swirl around Washington that John Poindexter, 50, is an angry and bitter...
...Premier or the President -- alone. Under the unwritten rules of cohabitation, more elaborate occasions, like last year's Western economic summit in Tokyo, require the presence of both Chirac and Mitterrand. Though each scrupulously observes the courtesies due the other's office, both expect to be received in equally grand style. They usually travel aboard separate aircraft, hold separate meetings with foreign leaders and are prickly about details, right down to the seating arrangements at banquets. The two leaders have learned to speak for France "with one voice from two mouths," as a member of Chirac's Cabinet puts...
...page indictment accuses Deaver of deliberately lying three times to the federal grand jury and twice to the congressional subcommittee that first looked into his lobbying activities. The grand jury says Deaver lied when he denied participating in White House discussions on acid rain on behalf of the government of Canada, one of his first clients, and he lied about arranging a meeting between President Reagan and an emissary from the government of South Korea. He also perjured himself or made false statements, said the indictment, about his lobbying efforts for the Smith Barney brokerage firm...
...Deaver blocked his indictment for three weeks by challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which provides for such special prosecutors. Two lower courts dismissed his arguments, and Deaver's final appeal was turned down by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist just hours before the grand jury returned the bill against...