Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currie told the grand jury that Clinton called her in on a Sunday and asked her leading questions, such as, "I never touched her, right?" She said he seemed "concerned" and wanted to see her reaction...
...Currie testified that she suspected impropriety in the President's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. She told the grand jury that she "had concern." In her words: "[H]e was spending a lot of time with a 24-year-old young lady. I know he has said that young people keep him involved in what's happening in the world, so I knew that was one reason, but there was a concern of mine that she was spending more time than most." Ms. Currie understood that "the majority" of the President's meetings with Ms. Lewinsky were "more personal in nature...
...GRAND JURY SYSTEM --A ONE-SIDED INQUIRY...
...federal grand jury to compile evidence for possible impeachment proceedings in Congress raises numerous troubling questions regarding the credibility of that evidence. Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading. In fact, it has been a one-sided effort to present the worst possible version of a limited set of facts... The grand jury's historic role is not to determine the truth but rather...
Frankenheimer has always liked to hold a large number of people at different depths in his frames, and that serves well the tense interplay of the actors when they're plotting and scheming. It also provides a nice contrast to the car chases that are another Frankenheimer specialty (Remember Grand Prix?). He loves sending his vehicles screeching through narrow European streets, and he apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies...