Word: grand
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...Before leaving, the girls said they would return to finish their burgers, though they never did. The next day the three were scheduled to return to San Francisco, where they would meet Sund's husband Jens, 43, and the foursome would fly to Phoenix for a trip to the Grand Canyon. Jens Sund, who has known Carole since high school and who is a vice president at Carrington Co., did not find his wife at the San Francisco airport and assumed she had flown ahead. She was not in Phoenix either, but he played a round of golf there...
Most chess champions play their first game before age five. MAURICE ASHLEY didn't start until he was 14, but it didn't take long to recognize that he had a knack with a knight. Last week, at age 33, he became the first African-American grand master in history and one of only 45 grand masters in the U.S. He won the title, the highest distinction bestowed by the International Chess Federation, after besting a Romanian grand master at a New York City tournament. The victory came on Ashley's home turf: until 18 months ago, when he joined...
England made his fortune. He was what the English upper classes--both hereditary aristocrats and nouveau riche --had wanted but not found: a portraitist who could perform in the Grand Manner. There had been none since the death of Thomas Gainsborough a century before, and Sargent, with his tremendous fluency and genuine empathy for the social levels of his sitters, filled the gap to perfection. He had no interest in politics past or present, was completely without class resentment and seemed to be devoid of irony. As a biographer who knew him pointed out, "He would have been puzzled...
...King promoted a heavyweight title fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield that resulted in a draw. While it appeared to the untrained eye that Lewis beat the living daylights out of Holyfield, landing 348 punches to Holyfield's 130, the expert judges thought it was superclose. A grand jury is investigating the matter. I suggest a censure resolution. But only because I think that makes me sound smart...
NEVER-ENDING STORY Feel as if life lacks drama now that Monica's off on her book tour? Fret not. Monica theatrical events abound. The Starr grand jury testimony has been turned into a play, The Trials of Monica Lewinsky, most recently performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Texas composer Stephen Hilton's Under Oath: A Political Cantata took its libretto from the same source, and is available on CD. And you can still catch Starr Struck, at left, a musical in L.A. Susan McDougal has seen it twice...