Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading those words, I felt as though Ellison had emerged from the grave and shot me with a semiautomatic...
...House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
...major appearance in his report to Congress comes when the prosecutor says she is under investigation for duplicating or otherwise tampering with the tapes, something she's testified she has not done. (If that were found to be untrue, she could face perjury charges.) But she would pose a grave danger to Starr if it were proved he had encouraged her to brief the Jones team, something both Starr's allies and Tripp's lawyers deny. His prosecutors were furious, says a source close to Tripp, when they learned of her meeting with the Jones lawyers several hours after...
Jean-Michel faults the woman he calls his "out-of-step-mother" for lending the Cousteau name to a catalog selling organic coffee and shampoo--"my father must be flip-flopping in his grave"--and slashing staff in the face of falling revenues. Worse, says Jean-Michel, is building the costly Calypso II instead of smaller, more mobile vessels. "Calypso II is a joke," he fumes...
Public opinion and voting opinion have been out of synch for years. But never before in this era of nonvoting has a midterm election turned into a referendum on a question as grave as impeachment. And so there is reason to believe that if Congress moves toward impeachment, many Americans will feel betrayed. An impeachment-bound Congress may find itself trapped in a paradox: by following the imperatives of our democratic process, it undermines its popular legitimacy...