Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet war gave way to public battles, and Bronfman wasn't finished enlisting political help. On April 8, a day before he was to testify at D'Amato's hearing, Bronfman invited Hillary Rodham Clinton to his New York apartment for a fund-raising lunch. That morning, New York magazine had published a story on the search for Jewish money in Swiss banks. Bronfman ripped the pages out and gave them to Clinton. "Will you please read these?" he said. "You will understand how important it is that I see your husband tomorrow." Clinton scanned the article and asked, "Swiss...
...with the Swiss on a new survey of exactly how many Jewish accounts had existed and how the money left could be returned to rightful owners. Finally the two sides agreed to set up an audit, then discuss a final resolution. In the meantime, the process would be kept quiet...
...includes the first Bugs Bunny and Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, the first Warner cartoon to win an Oscar and several hilarious Chuck Jones shorts. The festival carefully includes all the famous Looney Tunes phrases--"What's up, Doc?" "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" and "Be vewy, vewy quiet"--but if you listen closely, the cartoons are replete with wry jokes and creative banter...
...time Madeleine Albright sinks into a wicker chair at a corner table in a quiet Georgetown restaurant, the circles under her eyes are dark and deep. She's running an hour late; she's skipped a reception at the Czech embassy. Her ambassador in Paris is dying. It has been a long day. The Merlot comes in a big glass...
Meanwhile, at a small gathering at the tony Shutters on the Beach hotel, a quiet Juditha Brown told friends she tried not to show too much emotion as she listened to the verdict being read in court. There was much to meditate about the future: Sydney and Justin were in the legal custody of a man who had been found liable for the battering--and by extension the death--of their mother. The fact that the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson did not file a wrongful-death suit leaves open an even more macabre possibility: that either or both...