Word: grosser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Grosser, the project coordinator, said he is confident that if people in Cambridge become involved with the reestablishment of San Jose Las Flores, the Salvadoran government, which receives aid from the United States, will pay more attention to the safety of the town...
...warmth by soaking up excessive high frequencies. But the first dozen or so rows lay in a dead spot, and an unsettling echo off the back walls was noticeable in loud, brassy passages. Despite its reputation, Carnegie was not quite as good as Boston's jewel and the Grosser Musikvereinsaal in Vienna, or newer spaces such as the Philharmonie in Berlin and Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City...
...anniversary in 1987, the studio's The Golden Child, starring Comedian Eddie Murphy, is the hot Christmas movie, raking in $11.6 million in its first weekend at 1,667 theaters -- despite mixed reviews. Paramount's astonishing Australian import, "Crocodile" Dundee, has just finished its twelfth week as a top grosser, having earned more than $103 million at 1,495 theaters. Headed in the same direction is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which has earned $47.5 million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount's Top Gun, which has taken in $168 million since...
...multiuntalented Peter Allen chosen to sing and dance a medley of Irving Berlin songs, when he can do neither? Or, more to the point, why was Gandhi, good as it is, chosen Best Picture over E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, the most popular movie of the year and the highest grosser (more than $350 million) of all time...
...grosser for the entire year was, of course, E.T., which ran up $322 million through Jan. 2 and by now may have displaced Star Wars ($325 million) as the biggest moneymaker of all time. Several light-years behind were the rest of the year's top ten: On Golden Pond ($120 million), Rocky III ($119 million), An Officer and a Gentleman ($109 million), Porky's ($107 million), Star Trek II ($85 million), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ($74.5 million), Poltergeist ($74 million), Chariots of Fire ($62 million) and Annie ($58 million...