Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office in 1981. Like the President's clothing, the Inaugural celebration was toned down, at least in comparison with the $16 million extravaganza that launched Reagan's first term. The four-day celebration was not exactly subdued; not with eight black- tie balls, two galas, a huge fireworks display and a parade. But the theme of the Inaugural was "We the People," and even if many in attendance wore fur coats and rode around in limousines (more than 1,000 cars were hired for the long weekend), the affair was supposed to have a distinctly populist flavor...
...Pageant, held in a light snowfall on the Ellipse. The program was a musical tribute to U.S. history, with a narration by Actor Fess Parker that included excerpts from presidential swearing-in addresses beginning with George Washington's in 1789. The 1 1/4-hour pageant ended with a gigantic fireworks display set off from both sides of the Ellipse and the White House South Lawn to ignite directly over the Washington Monument...
...breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts...
...breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts...
This Inaugural will feature more public events than were offered in 1981. Friday's opening pageant and fireworks display on the Ellipse, for example, will be free. The number of reviewing boxes along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route ($12.50 to $100 per seat) has been reduced to provide more standing room...