Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unshakable belief that they hold the key to theatrical success in their genes. Hitting the right notes of arrogance and aristocratic off-handedness must be a trial. and not surprisingly only one of the Cavendishes at the Loeb finds the perfect balance. Shirley Wilber animates Fanny Cavendish, the grand dame of both stage and family, with accomplished ease: she seems as comfortable acting the role on stage as her comfortable acting the role on stage as her character does adding bits of drama to living room scenes. Wilber presides over both her household and this production with the assurance...
...play, and Katharine Kean in her role offers plentiful urbanity and ease on stage. Her dramatic posturing is less subtle than Wilber's, and more self-conscious, but she maintains the illusion of the unrivalled actress in her prime in all but the most taxing moments. In the grand renunciation scene, when she announces she will leave the stage--forever, of course--the poised aristocrat turns into a ranting hausfrau, flailing and directing her harangue at the audience. The dislocation is brief but unsettling...
Maybe some snappy marketing ideas, but usually not many grand plans. Yet today Bud Grossman, neat and bland at 58, is the Minnesota Money Machine...
George Bush: He borrows a little from each of his competitors. Much of his thinking was pulled together during briefings by Economists Arthur Burns, Paul McCracken, Herbert Stein and Paul MacAvoy at Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Me. He urges an energy effort as metaphorically grand as "the landing on the beaches of Normandy...
...earth's rotation, thus explaining such seemingly miraculous events described in the Old Testament as the parting of the Red Sea. Though his ideas earned him visionary status among a youthful following, he sought but never obtained recognition from scholars, many of whom referred to him as the "Grand Old Man of the Fringe...