Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Espinoza was held as a material witness under $100,000 bail. The other two men were being sought. The U.S. Attorney was to decide this week whether to seek grand jury indictments. Declared FBI Spokesman Tom Sheil: "Any time there's a threat against a President or a possible plot against a President, we're going to take it seriously...
...burglary-it might have worked. Last week, acting again on the informant's tip, police went to an apartment in Coral Gables and arrested a suspect: William McFarlan, 23, a 170-lb., 5-ft. 6-in. freshman law student at the University of Miami, who was charged with grand theft and burglary. Police are now searching for a missing coin collection worth...
...quickly as the joy had erupted, disaster struck back. After a torrential downpour held up the races for 15 minutes, the freshmen heavies embarked on the Grand Finale. As the boats came into the view of the crowd gathered at the home stretch, Yale held about a half-length lead on Harvard and Northeastern. With just 400 meters to go and the boats in an all-out sprint to the flag, the Harvard eight suddenly stopped dead, Cornell and Wisconsin whisking past like a pair of flashes...
...current or former students of List's in his more staid guise as a teacher (first at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, now at New York University). Following a sort of platoon system, the performers came and went at the keyboards often grand pianos, which were arranged in a Busby Berkeley-style fan between two potted palms...
Less is more, said Mies van der Rohe. Oddly, at this concert, more was less. Pieces like Gottschalk's The Siege of Saragossa, a "grand symphony" for ten pi anos, or his arrangement of Rossini's William Tell overture for 20 players at ten pianos may have rung the rafters, but their massive sonorities tended to be mushy. The effect, especially when the scoring ranged into the silvery upper octaves favored by Gottschalk, was like a giant hurdy-gurdy...