Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finds meaning in coleslaw--"The coleslaw symbolizes the cosmos. The chopped cabbage is matter, the mayonnaise is the love of God holding everything together...." Much of his act consists in such grand observations, though he maintains that social comment is "an undercurrent...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Former Memphis State basketball coach Dana Kirk was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges or obstruction of justice, mail fraud, income tax evasion and filing false tax returns...
...taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian maiden for a heroine, if such a thing can be imagined...
...least a year after leaving office. Nofziger told the Times he was recovering from a mild stroke in 1982 and did not actually recall his letter to Jenkins. Meanwhile, investigations of Wedtech's ties to influential politicians are under way in New York City and Baltimore; a federal grand jury in New York has called Nofziger to testify. Like Michael Deaver, a fellow Reagan intimate and lobbyist who is already under investigation by a special counsel, Nofziger may have stumbled while walking too fine a line between serving the public and seeking private gain...
Ronald Reagan loves to speak of dreamers. Of Founding Fathers who dreamed of creating a free nation, of immigrants who came to America dreaming of a better life. Though he rarely says so explicitly, the President has entertained a grand vision of his own: to transform American politics. In his dream, the "Reagan revolution" that began six years ago would culminate in a massive political realignment, one that would make the Republicans the majority party and pull down the curtain on half a century of liberal government activism...