Word: grandee
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It could be a long year on the Rio Grande. The future's so dark they ought to carry a flashlight Big Back Iovry Lee Brown will run and run.
OLD QUEBEC isn't all there is to the city. Beyond the walls of the original town is newer Quebec and a huge metropolitan area. My parents and I wandered past the gates of the old city to a street called the Grande Allee.
What they miss is reality. They miss the Grande Allee, lined with bars and restaurants with prices that actually vary. This is a true Quebec hangout, filled with people who live in the city year-round, who parallel park their slick sportscars along the old roads. Well-dressed, French-speaking...
For a weekly whose parent company also owns the National Enquirer and Weekly World News, that may be a distinction akin to being the grande dame of the whorehouse. In this week's issue, the Star (circ. 3.2 million) purports to describe the bedroom romps of Kirstie Alley ("Kirstie Alley...
Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough...