Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Althoff since I was a boy," said Morris, 57. "I really wanted to see what we could do to resolve this." He enlisted the expertise of State Police Trooper Malcolm Murphy. Using court records and driver's license registrations, Murphy located Redmond living quietly as a retired trucker in Grand Island, Neb. Confronted by his pursuers after 37 years, Redmond "incriminated himself," prosecutors said...
Wallach, a former president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, had often boasted of his influence in Washington, claiming that "I'm Meese's boy." He was indicted on various charges, including fraud, in December by a federal grand jury in Manhattan. One accusation: he took illegal payments for trying to influence Meese in winning military contracts for Wedtech, the bankrupt New York manufacturing firm. That was trouble enough for the beleaguered Attorney General, who has appeared five times before McKay's grand jury. On Friday McKay visited the White House to tell senior officials that his investigation...
Midway through Chekhov's last play, written as he was dying, a plangent twang is heard by the members and hangers-on of a once grand family on the verge of eviction from its estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints...
With a salon where you can settle down, fool around with the clothes and schmooze with -- or at least step over -- the grand master, Lacroix is attracting other wealthy young people accustomed to haute ready-to-wear. Living for the city lights, they are the type who might sport a subtle Issey Miyake one night, an elegant Giorgio Armani the next...
...most damaging public testimony so far linking the Panamanian strongman to drug-smuggling operations. Kalish testified that he gave at least $650,000 to the general and his associates to help with drug deals and money laundering. Noriega had no comment on the charges. Meanwhile, a Miami grand jury is conducting a separate inquiry into drug-trafficking allegations against Noriega...