Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Draped in a red, white and green Iranian flag, the coffin was placed in state in the Abdin palace. An honor guard of four Egyptian generals stood with swords drawn as incense from a brass burner wafted through the air. Egyptian President Sadat, in full military band delivered a drum roll as the coffin was borne on a caisson drawn by six black Arabian horses. The cortege proceeded solemnly through the streets of Cairo, to the shouts of thousands of Egyptians lining the 1.2-mile route. "There...
...raises his right fist and brings it down gently. Up, down, up down. He is trying to lead the crowd in a chant of "Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali". Muhammad wants to drum up interest for his upcoming bout with Larry Holmes. The crowd continues to boo. Ali continues to pump that right hand. Up, down, up, down. Muhammad Ali is chanting alone. "Ali, Ali, Ali," he cries...
...want to protect the unborn children of the rich and middle class, as well as the unborn of the poor." Nineteen of the 34 states needed have already passed resolutions calling for a constitutional convention to consider some sort of antiabortion amendment, and Hyde and others are trying to drum up the two-thirds congressional majority required to pass an amendment that would then go to the states for ratification. But despite last week's Supreme Court decision, the foes of all abortions have a long way to go. Polls indicate that while the public favors government-paid abortions...
While your film critic Richard Schickel does list some of the unsavory images in the film The Tin Drum [April 28], he gives no warning of the many scenes that reduce sexual love to obscene bestiality and make women grosser than men in their lustfulness. It is a repulsive film...
...Sort of a diplomatic minuet" was Edmund Muskie's prediction about his first encounter as Secretary of State with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But by the time the two finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into a virtual symphony. NATO was convening in Brussels while the Warsaw Pact was gathering in Warsaw; Naples played host to a meeting of European Community foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering...