Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marcel Carne were stark: he could stay and make movies as though nothing were happening and be accused of collaborating, or he could flee to someplace where he could not speak the language well enough to create. Carne stayed. The chief result, Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), is a splendid sentimental tribute to 19th century populist theater, and to the acrobats, clowns, pantomimists and courtesans who created a street life to counter the staid classicism of the Comedie Francaise...
...trip to Washington took place in 1963, when as a Boys Nation representative from Arkansas, he briefly met President John F. Kennedy in a routine grip-and-grin reception in the Rose Garden. Thirty years later, the grainy footage of the two men's quick handshake, broadcast repeatedly in splendid slow motion, helped stake Clinton's claim to representing a new generation of leadership...
...understand that Professor Papaioannou has a splendid opportunity at Columbia, yet of course I hope very much that they will both choose to remain here," Knowles said...
...redeeming value of this book really has nothing to do with its shock value or its publishing quality. It's the splendid arrogance of Sex that really sets it apart. By publishing slick photo sex for mass consumption, Madonna, the promoter, makes a bid for America's fantasy life on an unprecedented scale. She has pushed her image as a mass media sex object to its logical extreme. This is porn-shop feminism in full bloom...
...John Adams, the first occupant, had a brief, cold and unhappy time in the new White House, and his dyspeptic ghost seemed to linger there for years. Thomas Jefferson groused about "a splendid misery." Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre." Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nobody lives there. They just come and go." And Harry Truman called it "the great white jail" but loved the place for its grace and meaning...