Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Walter Hill's combat sequences are short and sharp, but there are not quite enough of them. The script, by Hollywood's last rogue males, John Milius and Larry Gross, devotes too much time to parlay and palaver -- to self-justification, if you will. Depending on your point of view, that's either a necessity or a sad commentary on the state of traditional male ways of being...
Thank God Peninsula has exposed this "NAMBLA." I guess all that Mexican trade talk was a clever diversion. Those senators are gross...
...nightmare of 1986 is over! I'm off the hook. Your pal, Bill Buckner." Ring and note brought an astonishing $33,000. Even Pete Rose's good-behavior voucher from doing prison time for tax evasion fetched $770. "I know it's a little twisted," said executive Andy Gross, the winning bidder. "But this little conversation piece will have cult value. I could display it next to the Gerald Ford letter pardoning Richard Nixon, which I own, in my new Hall of Guilt...
...three hundred years after the close of the trials, the excesses the "possessed" spawned appall us. One wonders how people could be convicted to death on such slim evidence, and one feels grateful that our modern legal system is not so vulnerable to gross error. But in fact, some seem to say, the injustices of Salem are not so remote; the people now accusing childhood authority figures of sexual abuse based on previously repressed memories are perhaps as deceived as the possessed children of Salem were. Their imaginations, too, might be out of control...
Surprisingly, most educators who work with the new immigrants believe competence in English and the maintenance of cultural identity are compatible goals. "I believe in language and cultural pride," says Martin Gross, a New York City elementary school principal, "but let's not forget the fact that these kids are in America. I think we should respect different cultures but not become factionalized." Claudia Hammock, a teacher at the Cary Reynolds school, agrees: "We do try to keep their native customs and try to show them we want them to remember. But we also want them to learn to function...