Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their picture, solemnly assuring us that what we are about to see is true. The ensuing lies are generally sanitizing, ennobling and inspirational. At the beginning of Walker, its creators cross their hearts and hope to die in the usual manner. But the lying that follows is of a grand and giddy kind -- the stuff of that rarest of movie genres, the mock epic...
...scene, round-the-clock vigil at a Soviet missile-assembly plant near the Ural Mountains to see what goes in and comes out; Soviet watchdogs will do the same at a U.S. plant in Magna, Utah. With that issue settled, Reagan and Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon can stage the grand signing ceremony for the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty that is the ostensible reason for the summit...
While the stores may seem bursting with toysand treats, not every would-be Santa is havingsuccess finding the perfect gift. Charles D.MacDonald, a buyer for the Coop's stationarydepartment, spent this weekend searchingunsuccessfully for a radio-controlled toy car tobuy his grand son. "All four major toy stores inthe area were already sold out," he said...
...were the rightful property of the Federal Government, not of the so-called enterprise operated by retired Major General Richard Secord and his Iranian- born partner, Albert Hakim. Diverting those profits to the Nicaraguan contras "constituted a misappropriation of government funds," the report claims. If Walsh and a federal grand jury concur, Secord and Hakim may face indictments. So, too, may former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who approved the diversion, and former-NSC Staffer Oliver North, who directed the enterprise...
Walsh has been presenting witnesses to a grand jury at a stepped-up pace of three times a week. One of the witnesses last week was Attorney General Edwin Meese, who is sharply criticized in the report for failing to seek advice before telling the President that he could legally sell arms to Iran without informing Congress. Meese testified that he relied on an opinion written in 1981 by former Attorney General William French Smith. But the report points out that Smith had advised that Congress would have to be notified once arms shipments were under way. Said the report...