Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salisbury found in Pyongyang an extraordinary atmosphere of suspicion after two decades of isolation. The U.S., he reported, is portrayed as a "hawk-beaked, claw-fingered predator 'aggressor' with North Korea as its special target." Like the Chinese, the North Koreans have mastered the art of grandstand spectacle, in part to get across their revolutionary message. This one (above) was occasioned by the official visit of Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, the President of the Somali Republic...
While the rover's remote-controlled camera-provided spectators on earth with a grandstand view, Orion's upper stage shot up above a spray of colored debris from the lower stage's protective gold foil. The camera worked so well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they...
...Every councillor has an inalienable right to grandstand, but I think restraint should be shown here," Councillor Robert Moncreiff said. "I'm no fan of Nixon, but the damage caused to Cambridge in the disturbance cannot really be traced directly...
Evidently, Allende did just that. It was Castro's first appearance anywhere outside Cuba in seven years, and his first in South America in twelve.* But instead of playing to the grandstand, Castro kept pretty much to himself, which was apparently just what his host had prescribed. Castro spent two quick days laying wreaths and touring factories in Santiago, then set off on an extensive trip covering the spiny Andean country's entire 2,600-mile length. Everywhere he went, Castro ducked reporters, protesting that he was "under protocol...
Within seconds of Colombo's shooting, all three guards were very much in evidence, menacing bystanders with pistols or, in the case of Augello, dashing from one side of the grandstand to the other, punching strangers who got in his way. It is unlikely that any of the three killed Johnson...