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...buys. Already a big presence in ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Sears was eyeing new sitcoms like the WB's Supernatural, and the company isn't interested in providing an appliance as a background prop. "That's not enough to make people shop at Sears," says Perianne Grignon, vice president of media services for Sears. "It's easy to use merchandise as a prop, but we have higher standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime-Time Peddling | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...Adele F. Grignon '97, DeBalman's companion in the line and a transfer from Tufts University, said she too was surprised by the long line...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: First-Years Endure Long Lines at Registration | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...Louisa Grignon, playing Sartorius's daughter Blanche, creates a creditable version of this, Shaw's most confused character. Her success lies in the fact that she makes the audience feel a simultaneous attraction, revulsion, contempt and sympathy for her. Here, we see the beginnings of some of the rather questionable father-daughter relationships that Shaw went on to create. The director, Mort Kaplan, seems to have done his best to accentuate the suggestions of Blanche's Electra complex...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Engaging Production of Widower's Houses | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, "in reality, she died because of her origins." She acknowledged her Jewishness when she wrote after Hitler's pogroms began, "This is the realization of the curse that my people have brought on themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Passions | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...whose opinion of the mayor is divided, Grignon is more unbelievable than Seraphim. He struts through the village, strikes poses for tourists or opponents. But he has an eye for new scenes or faces. He mines his town for plots and characters for Un Homme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Man & His Sin | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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