Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hotels range from shabby-chic to seedy, the best being reserved for Western visitors. Kweilin's three-year-old, 300-room Li River hostelry is about average. The rooms are furnished in Grand Rapids style. The beds have pallets, but no springs, no Western-style mattresses, no top sheets; maid service consists of dumping a clean sheet and a blanket on the bed, to be made up by the guest. There is a plentiful supply of mineral water, beer, soft drinks and cigarettes, and a thermos of hot water and a package of tea leaves. There are also small...
...bound to happen. Dolly Parton, the cantilevered queen of country music, was stuffed as usual into skintight duds at the twelfth annual Country Music Association Awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Just before the announcement came that Dolly had won the Entertainer...
...Seven grand a year, ma, and we can't even beat Columbia and Cornell. Heck, the best thing about the football games these days are the tasty roast beef sandwiches in the press...
...first "grand" American style, mature abstract expressionism (painted from about 1950 onward) has been studied and shown almost to exhaustion. Shaped into an institution by the growing system of critics, dealers, curators and Government cultural agencies, the once fragile and isolated-looking works of Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Gorky and their peers became the emblems of a cultural empire: no style or movement since surrealism was diffused so fast, or imposed itself as completely on painters around the world. But the earlier work of these artists, done before, during and just after World War II, is still patchily known. Last...
...Grand and nefarious schemes aside, one of Murdoch's most powerful incentives for settling early is the galleys upon galleys of Columbus Day advertising that the Post carried in its first post-strike" editions-so many ads, that over the weekend the Post emerged with its first Sunday edition, which may become a fixture when all the city's presses are rolling again...