Word: profound
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...false advertising, or Alan Parker for the waste and abuse of directorial talent? For Angel Heart is not the movie TriStar wants it to be--a sexually charged murder mystery centered around the disrobing of Cosby Show sibling Lisa Bonet. Mr. Parker is shooting for something greater, more profound--an intellectually and sexually charged murder mystery centered around the devil, featuring the disrobing of Ms. Bonet. I've been...
Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
...Panamanian companies. While no evidence of personal gain has ever been alleged, authorities charge that Marcinkus allowed the Vatican Bank to be used by Calvi for his schemes. Marcinkus has strongly denied the accusation, and last Friday the Vatican came to his defense. In an unsigned statement, it expressed "profound astonishment" at the arrest warrants against Marcinkus and two senior officials...
There is no justification for rest. Bookkeepers are not adequate guardians of the President's obligation to act within the law. Reagan's failure to apologize for what--at best--was a profound dereliction of duty makes clear his lack of respect for the idea that, at least in this country, the people are supreme. He acknowledges yielding authority to a secret government but thinks he is only at fault because the secret government was a poor...
Reagan eased Secretary of State Alexander Haig out of office. In 1982, after the emotional Haig offered once too often to resign, the President handed him a note that began, "It is with the most profound regret that I accept your letter of resignation." Observed the astonished Haig in his memoir, Caveat: "The President was accepting a letter of resignation that I had not submitted...