Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes for no reason. It is a goddamned crime. It is grand-felony theft...
...author recommends that parents react tolerantly to the child's willfulness and compulsive no-saying at this stage. Parents should resist some demands, give in to others. A child who wins too often emerges "with an overly extended, overly grand notion of its power." But a child who loses too many battles "emerges from its second birth with a pervasive sense of humiliation and self-doubt." If so, it will develop into a compliant child whose protest may emerge late as bedwetting, foolish behavior or theft...
Once MGM churned out fantasies on film, but now the studios are mostly sold off or grinding out TV fluff. MGM is best known today for its hotels and casinos, lavish Disneylands for grownups with high-roller dreams. The MGM Grand Hotels make dollar-and-cents sense; in the past 4½ years the Las Vegas MGM hotel's floor show has earned nearly $60 million. Some of old Hollywood remains in the new playgrounds. The MGM Grand Hotel and casino newly opened in Reno is colossal: it cost more than $138 million and has the world...
...L.B.M.: Simple enough, simple enough. It'll be just like our old movies-as lavish as we can make it. as corny as they can take it and just as great as it always was. We'll take them full circle: call the casino MGM Grand Hotel and name the show Hello, Hollywood, Hello. Why not? Somebody has to revive Hollywood, even if they've got to go to Reno...
Giovanni Amati, bass, wealthy grand duke of Rome's motion picture emporiums...