grander

Anderson last adapted Pynchon with the loopy, stoner-inflected “Inherent Vice,” but here he’s working on a grander scale.

The long-game glory could be even grander, but only if he pulls it off.

That means El Aliso will continue to live — maybe as a plaque, maybe as a hologram, maybe as something even grander.

Going back to Benito’s masterpiece, its conceptual gravitas is almost grander than the songs themselves.

But by 1964, Wilson had come to realize that his ambitions for popular music were much grander than The Beach Boys’ sun-kissed brand could ever hope to accommodate.