Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were the New Centurions all over again," said District Attorney John Holmes. "They were frustrated at all the legal rules, so they cut corners." A Harris County grand jury is probing the scandal, but prosecution of the narcotics officers may be difficult because so many of their targets were case-hardened criminals. Ironically, a few of the dealers bagged by the unit and now in prison may be eligible for pardons...
...messy uphill battle. And now two French films arrive to clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy is sent away from home for a wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis of conscience. Malle's movie, sure to be nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is the bleak, heartbreaking goods...
...than VCRs, and the latest models -- "combi machines" -- can play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...
Blandon's disclosures came just days after U.S. grand juries in Tampa and Miami indicted Noriega for conspiring with drug dealers to ship more than 4,000 lbs. of cocaine and more than 1 million lbs. of marijuana to the U.S. through Panama. Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto ruler of the country since 1983, is charged with accepting more than $4.6 million in bribes, most of it from the so-called Medellin cartel of powerful narcotics lords, who are based in Colombia's second largest city...
Instead of grand pronouncements about urban life, Shawn told me that "My Dinner with Andre was quintessential of the Carter era--optimistic, cheerful. It could not be made in the Reagan era. In fact," he continued, "when I see Andre [Gregory], when we meet and talk, we always talk about politics. If we made the movie today we would both be obsessed with the political questions." Again the reality and illusion seemed to mesh too perfectly. He really meets and talks with that crazy guy, Andre. Yet as Wally explained, the issues he defended, some of which he "still believe...