Word: grandly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During Elmer's tenure as the Castle's janitor, which ended with his death in 1977, the Lampoon promoted him to such exalted positions as Grand Culinator, Generalissimo and Prevailing Symbol of the Lampoon. The Lampoon's award to visiting comedians is named the "Elmer" in his honor...
...retrospective affirms the panache and mental horsepower that make Frank Stella the grand maximalist of abstract painting...
...that good? Not quite, but to fall short of such a comparison is still to achieve something. Stella is a pictorial rhetorician on the grand scale, and nobody who cares about the fate of abstract painting today could chew through this show -- cramped and arrhythmic though its installation is -- without being deeply moved. Just as Lucian Freud's exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington shows up the dinginess of most American figure painting in the '80s, so Stella's fearless panache and the profusion of his output refute the common idea that the possibilities of abstract painting are played...
Securities firms outside Wall Street also felt mortal pain. In Grand Rapids, H.B. Shaine & Co., a regional brokerage with 107 employees, wound up in a merger after Monday's debacle pushed it into bankruptcy. The 4,500 accounts of the New York Stock Exchange member were taken over by Rodman & Renshaw, a Chicago firm...
...these pages, TIME presents exclusive photographs of the salvage operation, the Titanic itself and some of the recovered treasures. Among the objects brought up by French divers: a bronze teapot and coffeepot, a leather valise, a rococo vase, a statue of a cherub from the Titanic's first-class grand staircase and a ship's safe, which may contain a fortune in jewelry...