Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard data from the Vienna summit will prove that, but one could feel it in those ancient streets. Quiet crowds watched the laborious and cloaked comings and goings of Leonid Brezhnev at the Hofburg Palace. The grand patrons of the Vienna Opera stealthily turned their proud profiles when the lights dimmed and in the middle of Mozart raised their opera glasses for furtive study of the Brezhnev mask. Soviet proposals at the negotiating table were from old chapters. Their speeches were uninspired. They seemed oddly fearful of the future, even with their massive arsenal...
Capitol Immunity. When Congressman Henry Helstoski appeared before a grand jury investigating political corruption in New Jersey in 1974, he came voluntarily and promised "full cooperation." Two years and nine grand jury appearances later, Helstoski was no longer volunteering information or even answering questions. By then the Congressman himself was a target of the probe. In June 1976 he was indicted for taking bribes in exchange for introducing private bills in Congress that allowed aliens to stay...
...drawings were selected to display Michelangelo's progress from young prodigy to grand old master. He was only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...
...greatest master of still life in the history of painting. Yet there has not been, until now, a full-dress retrospective of his work. To mark the 200th anniversary of his death, at the age of 80 in 1779, a huge Chardin show opened in January at the Grand Palais in his native Paris, with 142 paintings, drawings and pastels, and a catalogue by one of Europe's most distinguished art historians, Pierre Rosenberg. Two American institutions took part in the production, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; this month the Chardin exhibition...
There is an old evangelical hymn whose refrain runs, "Brighten the corner where you are." Scarcely anyone on either side of the Atlantic does that with more dazzling spontaneity and skill than Britain's Actor-Dancer-Singer-Clown Jim Dale. He is a grand and compelling reason for being at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater at the present moment instead of wherever you happen...