Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oliver North does not seem superstitious, and thus did not take his beloved Navy's 27-7 shellacking by Army as an omen for what the week ahead had in store for him. He attended the grand old game in Philadelphia as the guest of Navy Secretary John Lehman. North, like the good soldier he insists he is, spent his week without complaining -- and without explaining...
...Grand Hotel, but life at Vermont's quaint old Stratford Inn is far from routine. For example, here comes the hotel's slow-witted handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) to unveil the latest product from his workshop: a wooden replica of Mount Rushmore featuring the face of Mr. Green Jeans. Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy), the pampered Wasp princess who works at the inn as a maid, goes through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order...
...There are more ideas in this party right now, more flexibility," said Grandy, answering questions on the future of the Grand Old Party. Grandy used to play the part of the purser Gopher on the TV show "Love Boat...
...they will continue to doggedly resist this new invasion quite independently of receiving outside military aid. The Afghan war is not a superpower-confrontation, but a war between a superpower and a small, non-aligned nation fighting for it's survival and independence. It is, hopefully, also the last grand colonial war. The only way of imposing Pax Sovietica in Afghanistan is to bleed the nation to death. And that will take many more years...
...realm of genre moviemaking here. But nobody does that with greater conviction, energy and unpatron-izing affection for the grand old forms than Eastwood. He also knows that by grounding his work with a few simple ironies, he can humanize his basic screen character, that of the dutiful loner, and separate it from upstarts like "Sly" Stallone and Chuck Norris. The sergeant's swearing, for example, is well beyond the grunting demands of realism; it is an aria of obscenities and more a commentary on macho posturing than an assertion of it. Same thing with the women's magazines...