Gregory Nava's "My Family: Mi Familia" is a grandly ambitious, warmhearted, wildly uneven movie about one Mexican-American family in East Los Angeles.

"Abraham," filmed in Morocco with an international cast directed by Joseph Sargent, is grandly ambitious.

Proposals for four parcels of land between 125th and 128th Streets and Second and Third Avenues range from the modest to the grandly ambitious.

After Mexico's 19th-century war with the United States, Tula becomes a prosperous commercial center and even attracts a grandly ambitious music teacher who stages a cacophonous "Concert for One Hundred Pianos" in its plaza.

This quartet looks to the future of rock songwriting - occasionally reminding you of a grandly ambitious band like Radiohead - while drawing on traditional and sometimes rural song forms from Mexico.

ONE of the great intellectual surprises in the last half of the decade has been the comeback of superstring theory, the grandly ambitious attempt to explain everything in the universe as the manifestation of tiny, vibrating strings.

A grandly ambitious effort to establish an international presence proved costly.

As an architect my work, grandly ambitious and minutely paid, was always done for some princeling who was promptly dethroned.

Perhaps that explains this grandly ambitious tour, his most elaborate to date: a dozen musicians onstage, including two drummers; a dramatic video backdrop; and for the first time, uniforms.

Grandly ambitious and sensitively executed.