Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Archconservative Pontiac Dealer Evan Mecham needed five tries to become Governor of Arizona. Now, just ten months after taking his oath, the grandfatherly Mormon is under siege. He has been ridiculed in the comic strip Doonesbury, faces a formidable recall campaign, and is the target of a grand jury investigation that could lead to impeachment...
...previously undisclosed $350,000 loan to the Mecham campaign from a local developer, and questions about whether the loan influenced two Mecham appointments. While the Governor denies any wrongdoing, the legislature has hired a special counsel to investigate, and Mecham has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury this week...
...landmark visit to the People's Republic of China that also includes Pat Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai among its cast of characters. Although it is sure to provoke strong emotions and conflicting opinions, Nixon in China, currently on display at the Houston Grand Opera, is the most important new opera since Philip Glass gave voice to Mohandas Gandhi in Satyagraha seven years...
...glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...rode the glass elevator up and down in the Heritage Grand Hotel lobby. With its burgundy velvet furniture, powder blue walls and Christmas bulbs everywhere, I might as well have been visiting the Grand Ol' Opry...