Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whatever parties you think will be fun, dress up as the person you want to become, or curl up alone in a dark room with a good book--anything by Poe, Lovecraft or King is highly reccomended--but whatever you do, stay true to the grand old holiday of Hallowe'en by having as much fun as you possibly...
After billboards, bus shelters and blimps, advertisements are now spreading to home-video rental boxes. Two companies, Calgary-based ADcorp and the Video Ad Network of Grand Rapids, have begun selling space on the plastic covers that encase videocassettes to dozens of advertisers, including McDonald's, Pizza Hut and the Bank of America. Nearly 35,000 U.S. video stores have signed up to carry the ad-bedecked cases. With good reason. Video Ad Network President Scott Johnson claims that a retailer who sells space on 2,000 tape cases could garner $16,000 or more a year in ad revenues...
...sure did. And I bet a lot of the viewers did, too...hey hey, looks like a grand slam home...
...Like his grand-neice said, however, it was not so easy to divorce Reed from his potent politics. The only American buried at the Kremlin, Reed is still the stuff of ideological controversy...
...real boy soon found out. A director-daredevil in the grand British line of Michael Powell and David Lean, Boorman thinks there is still an empire, of traditions if not of global power, worth challenging and defending. Let smaller-souled men paint still lifes of kitchen sinks; Boorman is a muralist, with epic ambitions and a lust for impossible risks. He has spent his movie career navigating wild rivers (Deliverance) or cutting his way through jungles (The Emerald Forest), plunging into the mythic past (Excalibur) or the hallucinatory present (Exorcist II: The Heretic). Each film is an exploration...