Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director asked Rick and me, "Do you want to carry the lead banner?" What do you say when someone asks you to lead a parade of 125,000 people? You say yes yes yes. She tells you to get on some white clothes and the official gold sash and to come up to the front. You ask a woman for a pin to fasten your official gold sash. The woman asks who sent you here. "Some girl," you answer. "First of all there are no girls here," she says, "only women." She doesn't give...
...people line the streets, clapping and cheering; a few look on, shaking their heads. An old woman stares right at you, as if in anger. Then she smiles, and raises her fists like Muhammud Ali. You smile back, and raise your fist, nearly dropping your end of the banner...
...march goes on and on, up to the Capitol. They are singing "We Shall Overcome." Up the steps of the Senate building, carrying the banner, screaming at the top of their lungs, raising their fists. The march is over and the march hasn't begun. Though the front of the march has reached the end, there are still three miles of people, 15 abreast, on the Washington streets...
...plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman, 2. The queen, who earned her architecture degree at Princeton ('74), observes: "Our planning may leave something to be desired, but our designs, thank God, have been flawless." And very cute...
...advertised itself as a model society largely devoid of the social strains that create such wrenching political violence. Stunned Swedes tossed red roses on the murder site; some placed candles on the sidewalk. By Saturday morning, the lines of mourners wound around the block. On a wall a banner was hung, reading: WHY MURDER A TRUE DEMOCRAT? "It is an almost unbelievable shock," said Ulf Adelsohn, leader of the conservative opposition in the country's one-house parliament. "Sweden will never be the same after this." Following an all-night meeting of key Swedish leaders, Acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson...