Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who can afford it, though, Salzburg affords in return an unparalleled opportunity to display wealth and finery. On the street in front of the Festspielhaus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury sedans steadily disgorge one of the most elegantly dressed summer crowds in Europe, the men in tuxedoes or formal Austrian loden coats, the bejeweled women in couturier fantasies and silk dress dirndls. One favorite local pastime is estimating the retail value of the gems on parade between Hirsch and the Festspielhaus before curtain time...
...Seaspray operatives and ISA agents, however, proved uneasy partners. They worked together out of a house in a small Honduran town, bickering over who was to be in charge. The feuding led to a formal ISA complaint about loose Seaspray security. Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...
Noenoelani, kneeling, chants and finger taps the puniu, a small coconut- shell drum lashed to the thigh, and thumps the pahu hula, a larger sharkskin- covered drum. Hauolionalani, leis at wrists and ankles, head erect, chants a formal request -- "Let me in, I'm cold" -- to be admitted to the halau, or dance school. Noenoelani replies as the teacher, "Come in, all I have to offer is my voice . . ." Her daughter begins the rhythmic, liquid swaying of the hula...
...wake of the Iran-contra fiasco, the President moved last week to head off congressional efforts to restrict his power to conduct covert activities. In a formal announcement made in the Oval Office on Friday, Reagan promised that he would notify Congress of such initiatives within 48 hours, barring the "most exceptional circumstances...
...years is long enough for an engagement. It's time for wedding bells." So said the leader of Britain's Liberal Party, David Steel, in July as he pressed for a formal merger of the Liberals and the centrist Social Democratic Party. The two political groups, which won only 22 of 650 parliamentary seats in last spring's British general election, have since 1981 formed a carefully calibrated alliance, wedged between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives and the union-backed Labor Party. Last week, after a tally of ballots mailed to the S.D.P.'s more than 58,000 members...