Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jewel robbery, which they pull off perfectly. This is when Cleese, Monty Python's Minister of Silly Walks, enters the picture as Archie Leach, a barrister hired to defend yet another member of the gang. Though Cleese has written himself some nice screwball-comedy turns, Leach is no Cary Grant. He is really a grownup Tweety bird, an innocent with an iron will...
...unsuccessful writers the postal service mostly outputs despair: rejection slips and royalty statements showing negative balances. For literature's grandees it mainly offers worldly delights: invitations to accept honorary degrees, chair a grant-giving panel or cash a nice subsidiary-rights check. The more typical professional writer, however, earns neither pity nor envy -- just a modest living, neither more perilously nor more glamorously obtained than anyone else's. For him, the postman's bag is ever a hilariously mixed...
Lelyweld said he had been told by MCADofficials that the agency will receive a $350,000federal grant from the Department of Housing andUrban Development (HUD) and that another $110,000grant is pending. With those grants, MCAD willlikely be able to maintain or improve its currentaverage processing time of 280 days, he said...
...there such a thing as Hispanic art in America? No, if what you expect is some kind of identifiable, shared Hispanic style; to go prospecting for that between Albuquerque and Miami is like looking for a homogeneous Wasp or Jewish style. But the answer is yes if you grant that the cultural and social experience of Hispanic Americans, their history, memories, imagery and lifeways, are different from those of other Americans. Hispanic-American art not only exists, but also provides a powerful means for both the artists and their public to grasp the meanings of their own ethnicity...
Squid cookery has been a boon to the wrestling team of Monterey High School since its coach, Bill Grant, discovered the profits in this smoky fund raiser. Working the squid festival and running a $10 eat-all-you-want squid dinner in the school each December, he provides qualifying fees so his athletes can try out for various championship tournaments. "The first $6,000 is for the team," Grant said, "then my wife and I work other outings, such as the Laguna Seca racetrack, and keep those profits for ourselves." Roberto Dixon, a Panamanian who lives in Monterey...