Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero's welcome in Manhattan (see PEOPLE), the Metropolitan Opera's Old Pro Leonard Warren, 47, breezed into Moscow and gave audiences at the Bolshoi Theater a chance to hear the resonant, mahogany-hued voice and the sweeping dramatic power that have made him one of grand opera's top baritones...
...Treasure Hunt." The old scheme has seldom been so doughtily exploited. College boys plastered downtown store windows with promotional stickers, annoying merchants so much that KMYR ran a newspaper ad apologizing. The first hints as to where the loot was buried were totally worthless. Sample: "Fifty grand is much money, forsooth/Don't waste your time in a telephone booth...
Garden of Eden. Last week the most grandiose plan of them all, Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Opera and Civic Auditorium, was unveiled. It is a fantasia right out of the Arabian Nights, and Wright, 88, a self-confessed Arabian Nighter since boyhood, meant it to be that way. "If we are able to understand and interpret our ancestors," Wright intoned, "there is no need to copy them. Nor need Baghdad adopt the materialistic structures called 'modern' now barging in from the West upon the East...
...MILLION SKYSCRAPER of 50 stories is planned for present site of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal Office Building. Group headed by Manhattan Builder Erwin Wolfson agreed to lease land from owner of site, New York Central and New Haven Railroads. But Wolfson, who was in one of the three other abortive deals for similar buildings, still has to sign final lease and get financing...
...smothers the story. Worse still, the physical exuberance of the production flusters the pensive sensuality of Colette's mood like a poodle in a cage of lovebirds. But in the details, the script sticks surprisingly close to the book. Gigi (Caron) is a dear little French girl whose grand aunt and grandmother have given her a strict upbringing in the finest traditions of their family-which happens to be a family of expensive prostitutes. Gigi's mother is the black sheep-she has sunk to a respectable job as a second lead in the Opera-Comique-and Gigi...