Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion that the Kennedy School is Dukakis' brain trust is largely mythical," said Reich. "There are just a few of us advising him. It is a gross exaggeration to say the Kennedy School is largely and wholly involved on his campaign...
...past decade movie-theater queues have resembled waiting lines at a sock hop. Teenagers stormed the box office, and Hollywood cloned films in their image. Their favorite genres -- sci-fi fantasies, peekaboo sex farces, gross-out horror movies -- multiplied on the screen, and sequel followed sequel followed sequel. Who needed adults? Those forgotten creatures stayed home with their TV movies and VCRs. For them the local multiplex was a teenagers' tree house bearing the sign GROWNUPS STAY...
...much of a nest egg is left? That is one of many intriguing questions left unanswered. Since gross income from investments is put at $29 million, however, the Vatican's holdings in stocks, real estate and other assets can be projected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also substantial gold reserves, though their size may be exaggerated...
Inman-Ebel plays a recording from an earlier session. "Gross. Ugh. I can't believe I sounded like that," says the client, a 23-year-old announcer on public television, who says she was turned down for a job at one Chattanooga station because of her accent. They practice another sentence with the recorder on, and Inman-Ebel plays back the tape, exulting in her client's progress: "If all I had was that sentence, I wouldn't be able to locate that person anywhere. It was a nonaccent." Her highest accolade...
...Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Falwell's argument in terms that decisively reaffirmed First Amendment protections. Falwell had argued that "outrageous" parody like Hustler's should not be given the protection that more conventional satire and cartooning deserved. But while acknowledging that the ad was "gross and repugnant in the eyes of most," Chief Justice William Rehnquist said for the court that to define and penalize the outrageous would require some very fine judgments, allowing jurors to award damages on the basis of their personal taste or "their dislike of a particular expression." Protecting vulgar parody...