Word: grandness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...swinging Squirrel Nut Zippers. He has transformed from floor-stomping fiddler into a mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha” aren’t improvements over Bird’s earlier work. The album seems to aspire to the grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird...
...next to play host on April 15 - but Hamilton already cuts an imposing figure in the paddock. "He's not only good - he's exceptionally good," says Damon Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1996 and now president of the British Racing Drivers' Club. Forget that Hamilton's Grand Prix career is just beginning. Hill, who jostled with Hamilton on a karting track at one point in the '90s, says: "He's had I don't know how many years of racing behind him. And he's a winner in everything he's done...
...support program for promising young drivers. But, say former team managers, he's ready to listen and learn when things go wrong. Hamilton has a rare "capacity to question himself - to analyze very clearly after a race," says Frédéric Vasseur, general manager at the ART Grand Prix team behind Hamilton's GP2 championship...
...Fisher's mother passedaway 11 years ago, her father, then 72, began to spend nearly all his time traveling or staying at a second home in Brownsville, Texas. "He wasn't the kind of guy you worried about being alone at Christmas," says Fisher, 49, who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. But in January, her father fell seriously ill. Eighty-three and infirm, he has returned to Michigan, where Fisher, after cutting her work hours and income, helps care for him. Her husband, she says, "has been supportive. But you sort of ask, 'How many years...
...every other quality a player could wish for, not least an unerring sense for where a defense was weak. A footballer among athletes, he was inventive, fearless and maybe the toughest of the tough. Born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a coal-miner father, he played the 1997 grand final with a punctured lung amid reports that he was risking death. Yet he performed without a hint of apprehension, setting up the try that gave his beloved Newcastle their first premiership...