Word: grand
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...idea of Zurbaran, as the art historian Yves Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
...short films, which were the first group of motion pictures ever shown to a public audience, premiered at the Indian Saloon in the basement of Paris's Grand Cafe...
...atmosphere at the San Fernando meeting. But in their comments they pointedly left for another day how they would apply the Pope's stern admonitions. As he completed his second tour of the U.S., there was speculation that John Paul, now 67, would never again attempt so strenuous and grand a crosscontinental visit...
...Czech Ivan Lendl defeated the Swede Mats Wilander last week in the U.S. Open, the grand-slam tennis season closed without an American-born champion of any gender for the first time in 18 years. Excluding the aging Chris Evert, 32, no American-born woman active today has ever won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open. In terms of the Davis Cup, the U.S. (a recent loser to Paraguay) has been reclassified a minor- league country, a zonal qualifier...
...security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes and hunker down for the storms. They make grand harmony. "No politics here," says Williams, who moves among the 66 species of trees, pruning, feeding and enticing life to its fullest...