Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grand strategies of superpower diplomacy were undercut last week by individual lunges for freedom. In Afghanistan, troops of the Soviet-backed Communist government surrounded the U.S. embassy in Kabul after a 19-year-old Soviet soldier slipped in through an open gate. Embassy personnel were allowed to come and go, but electricity to the building was cut off while U.S. diplomats tried to determine whether the soldier was seeking political asylum. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to Moscow for presummit consultations: "Our posture is to do our best to look after his interests...
...hand at fitting potted histories around incompressible works of art. One is firmly led through the mutations of English taste, as early Elizabethan patronage becomes the acquisitive connoisseurship of the late 18th century, and the tiny enameled world of Nicholas Hilliard opens to the spacious marmoreal one of the Grand Tour and Burlington House. Only after the 1930s, | with the ethos of country-house patronage in full retreat before the incomprehensible 20th century, does the show become a bore--a silly diminuendo of John Piper watercolors and Asprey-style silver humidors. The cutoff point should have been...
...objects. These run from Isaac Oliver's exquisitely realized miniature of three reflective siblings of the Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot...
Unlike Lynn, who rose to stardom literally from the backwoods of the south, Cline's path to the Grand Ole Opry seems to have been relatively worry-free, with random big-time record producers stopping her on the street and informing her that she is nothing less than the biggest talent to hit Nashville in generations...
While Tosteson and others still speak fondly of the grand seven-year proposal, most of their current efforts are aimed at insuring that the fledgling program survives its inaugural year...