Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says he had no grand plans when he started his business and that he was pulled into the enterprise by high school friends, who asked him to set up trips. He stuck with it because it was fun, he says...
Despite the cut-throat aura of Penn's "Grand Arena," or general lottery, most people manage to find a satisfactory place to live, students say. "You can just about always get a room in a high-rise, which is actually pretty nice," says freshman Will...
...federal grand jury last week charged three executives -- Charles Atkins, 32, William Hack, 62, and Ernest Grunebaum, 52 -- of Securities Groups, a bankrupt Manhattan-based investment firm, with providing $550 million in false tax write-offs through fraudulent trades in Government securities. Atkins, who headed Securities Groups, is the son of former Ashland Oil Chairman Orin Atkins. The roster of investors lured into the scheme reads like a program listing for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
...through to the post-'60s paintings of men like Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture of the past 80 years: neither "provincial" nor "minor," but singular and grand? What muffled the recognition of British art? Partly, it must be admitted, the English themselves. No nation in this century has been harder on its own artists...
...world whose origins lay in England's Industrial Revolution, Lewis argued, the English should be peculiarly fitted to make art of it: "They are the inventors of this bareness and hardness, and should be the great enemies of Romance." The pleated, diagonally stressed, armored precision of Lewis' paintings, as grand in their own way as Fernand Leger's, testifies to this -- in A Battery Shelled, 1919, even the smoke is metal. "I look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures...