Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became known as "the unsinkable aircraft carrier" of the Mediterranean. After one siege of Axis bombing raids, Britain bestowed the George Cross-its highest civilian award for valor-on the entire island. Last week Malta formally ended its participation in the defense of the West. At Malta's Grand Harbor, British and Maltese officials unveiled a monument symbolically depicting the departure of British forces. Next day Britain's last military commander on the island, Rear Admiral Oswald Cecil, boarded the guided-missile destroyer H.M.S. London, and set sail for home...
...duties on color TV sets that were brought in to the country between six and eight years ago. The department was clearly acting under pressure. Ohio Democrat Charles Vanik, who heads a House subcommittee on trade, has called for hearings on the dumping issue. At the same time, federal grand juries in New York City, Norfolk, Va., and Los Angeles, as well as a Justice Department task force in Chicago, are hearing federal allegations that several large retailers, notably Sears, Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney, have accepted illegal Japanese kickbacks...
...tableaux over the characters, but it does so with a brilliance in staging that brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion, emphasizing their isolation. Their grand gestures and melodramatic speeches seem absurd and meaningless, as observed from a distant height...
Fish held organized practices four times a week throughout the winter, with an emphasis on conditioning and drills. "Grand Prix" matches allowed people lower on the ladder to develop their skills by competing with the top players...
...show that homogenized the '60s for theater audiences; even at the time, it was dated. The movie's creators -Czech-born Director Milos Forman, Playwright Michael Weller, Choreographer Twyla Tharp-have never previously negotiated the perilous tides of movie musicals. Add a largely unproven cast and a grand budget, and you can see just how hairy an undertaking this movie was. One false move, and Hair would have congealed into Grease...