Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...
...caught up in the English rhymes of I Could Have Danced All Night, sung by Birgit Nilsson, of all people, in ponderous and chesty style. In the midst of the second act party scene, the producers have inserted anachronistic "entertainments" sung by some of opera's grandest names-Giulietta Simionato and Ettore Bastianini wander through Anything You Can Do, Leontyne Price sings Summertime from Porgy and Bess. "Gershwin?" quips the introductory dialogue. "But Gershwin isn't even born yet." The gag, unfortunately, dies with the first listening...
...roles Shakespeare played onstage (some think his favorite part was the ghost in Hamlet), offstage he was a prudent investor and a bit of a snob. He bought a piece of the players' company, a piece of the Globe, and eventually paid ?60 for New Place, the second grandest house in Stratford. In 1596 his father pushed his long-dormant claim to a coat of arms, and the Shakespeares
...along the way made him famous. His big (6 ft. by 10 ft.) Landers' Peak, Rocky Mountains was sold for $25.000; his Storm in the Rocky Mountains (12 ft. by 7 ft.) brought $35,000. British critics raved about him ("as devoted a lover of the grandest scenes in nature as any painter who ever lived''). The French gave him the Legion of Honor, and the Austrians bestowed on him their Order of St. Stanislas. At 37, tall, proud Albert Bierstadt was at his peak...
...canvas had already been whisked off to the gallery laboratories for the tricky and controversial business of cleaning and re-lining, would not be shown to the public for some months. Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy was exuberantly frank about his purchase: "Much the grandest Rembrandt we have...