Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlight of the celebration is the "Grand Ball," a lavish black tie affair on October 11. It will no doubt prove a memorable evening for those fortunate enough to attend. But even appropriately attired students willing to pay $15 per ticket will be left to their own devices that night, because entrance to the ball has been limited...
Dean Epps observes that passes to The Grand Ball are "the hottest tickets in town." The dean says the demand caught him by surprise: he didn't expect that many undergraduates to be interested in a formal soiree...
...Massachusetts Republicans have chosen a candidate for Governor and they're hoping that he'll bring some attention to the state's Grand Old Party...
...toes Harlem Scat, through the kick-up-your-heels flapper dance of The Hairdo Hop, past the wild jungle dance of Stix, round the sultry, smoky bend of A Blues for Two Women and back home to Harlem for the finale, Queenie Pie is unmistakably the work of the grand Duke. In the pit, the Duke Ellington Orchestra steps through the score's uptown opulence with high style, trumpets growling and keyboards swinging, while onstage, members of Director-Choreograp her Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theater juke and okeydoke their way through kinetic, hyperactive routines...
...suggestion of high-level Mexican involvement apparently surfaced during the investigation of the February 1985 torture-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Last week a Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A suspected eyewitness to the murder, Martinez was also, according to the Union, carrying papers detailing a "network of payoffs" that allegedly implicated the Mexican officials. Martinez's lawyer dismissed the report as speculation...