Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little as $25,000, but outfitting it may run to nearly $1 million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling is a rich deep blue, night sky. The car is designed for night, with lamps...
...also marks the culmination of a career that never pointed toward children's books in the first place. Van Allsburg, the son of a Grand Rapids dairy owner, set out to be a sculptor after studying at the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design. But he also sketched continually, and his wife Lisa, then an art teacher, showed some of his drawings to children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi...
...scene is South Central Los Angeles, but it could as easily be Detroit, Grand Rapids or Kansas City. A young white male driving a 1989 Thunderbird slowly circles one of the worst blocks in the city. He nods toward a group of blacks hanging out at a corner. As his smartly dressed date whirs up her electric window, a clamoring pack of drug dealers surrounds the car. Money is hastily exchanged for a tiny cellophane bag of off-white crystals. The car peels away, fleeing the inner city, headed toward suburban safety. But the driver of the Thunderbird, his supply...
CROSS OF FIRE (NBC, Nov. 5 and 6, 9 p.m. EST). Romance, murder and revenge -- you'll get it all in this fact-based mini-series about the rise and fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Indianapolis. Starring John Heard (Beaches, Big) and Mel Harris (thirtysomething...
Yellowstone can seem grand and wild, or it can resemble a big, hokey theme park, an example of what happens when man meddles too much with nature. Policies shift with political winds, and under former National Park Service director William Penn Mott, a wolf enthusiast, Yellowstone officials pushed hard for the wolf's reintroduction. Now Mott has been replaced by fence-sitter James Ridenour, and political pressure is reaching Yellowstone. Two weeks ago, a traveling Park Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year...