Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a plucky orphan who is not Harry Potter? What awful timing! Happily, though, Curtis (a Newbery Medal honoree) has conjured a hero just as mesmerizing but grittier. Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell ditches his foster home in Depression-era Flint, Mich., and heads for the jazz clubs of Grand Rapids in search of his long-lost dad. A gentle diva, based on Flint's own Betty Carter, shows Bud that a family exists whenever folks decide to stick together. Kids will take to Bud's hilarious advice for "becoming a better liar." But be warned: they may also insist...
...grand quest...
...people who operate the place--Cablevision Systems, through its Madison Square Garden subsidiary--will be hoping that today's judges will be a bit less cranky. After a seven-month restoration that stripped it to its bones and then rebuilt it virtually from ruins, the grand old theater will look strikingly unfamiliar to nearly anyone who has been there before. It will look the way it did 67 years...
...replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes had shuffled through the room in its first nine years, the carpet had been light and buoyant, as if in entirely different colors. Out in the Grand Foyer, a regilded ceiling now gleams above; plummy new fabrics provide a frame for the gold-backed mirrors along the walls; and over the great staircase Ezra Winter's gigantic The Fountain of Youth has been restored to such dazzling color that for a moment one can almost forget what...
...OVERHEARD:] "We did Rocky Mountains, Vail...the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park...