Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think they're worse than the Government." Then he grew nostalgic. "The rallies we used to hold in Madison Square Garden were glorious. No one has ever been able to reproduce those rallies. They have rallies there, but noth ing like the old days...
...maybe, for the moment, one can see how Richard Nixon feels; he does not have the power he is supposed to have, nor is the glorious burden quite so appealing as in the advertisements. He sailed the evening waters of the Potomac River with only one aide. He went to Camp David alone on a rainy night. His lone excursion into the public domain was to the deck of an aircraft carrier, safe from doubters. The biggest White House event of the week was the dinner on the South Lawn for the P.O.W.s, a reassuring evening of mutual tribute...
...Coalport china plates commemorating her late husband. Inscribed on its back is an elegiac quotation from Sir Winston Churchill: "In this prince there were discerned qualities of courage, of simplicity, of sympathy, and, above all, of sincerity; qualities rare and precious which might have made his reign glorious in the annals of this ancient monarchy...
...beaten Bob seven out of ten times." She insists that "Riggs doesn't worry me. There is no way to psych me out. I've been through it all." Court is wisely saving her breath for Sunday's match, when she will have a glorious chance to blow away one of the largest egos in sports...
With his eye for beauty, his ability to record both pageantry and piety infused with the spirit of the Middle Ages, Zeffirelli almost manages to stage a glorious passion-play. Instead, he drags his characters along like caricatures through a pantomime, sacrificing the magic of a legend to the flatness of a puppet show. Giotto was perhaps the greatest artist to illustrate the life of St. Francis in his frescos at Assisi. Zeffirelli has not been able to prove himself a worthy successor...