Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From its elegant mahogany bar to the cozy wicker furniture on its gingerbread verandas, Grand Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was a place for artists and writers to relax and reflect in style. Graham Greene set part of his novel The Comedians at the hotel, and Sir John Gielgud, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Mick Jagger were also guests...
...news for American consumers and autoworkers" and "in keeping with the requirements of both the law and the real world." That reality: sales of big cars have jumped as gasoline prices have fallen. Ford had threatened to discontinue manufacturing such full-size cars as the LTD and the Mercury Grand Marquis in the U.S. or to raise their foreign content to 26% or more. This would get them averaged in with gasoline-sipping imports, which would far outnumber the relatively few guzzlers...
What remains to be settled is Eddie's charge of selective enforcement. The man to settle it is James Nunez, chief wildlife-and-fisheries enforcement officer for the area. Nunez operates out of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. The drive there is through marsh country, with egrets and heron everywhere and a duck-hunting dog in every man's yard. The canals are thick with lily pads and anglers, and the talk is of the upcoming opening of teal season. (During the Iranian crisis, it was locally claimed that ten Cajuns could have saved...
...tend to be muted by irony or else lose their focus in conventional panoramas. But his photocollage method seems perfect for them, and the biggest work in this show, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, sets them forth at full stretch. It is a scene both banal and grand: an intersection on the highway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the yellow highway line plunging out to meet the horizon under a great arch of pale blue sky, dry low brush and gray clay dust on either side, the foreground a clutter of desultory trash, beer cans, markers...
Three-hundred unclaimed tickets to Saturday's 350th Grand Ball are being made available to students, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said yesterday...