Word: highlight
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...highlight of Reagan's visit to London was his speech to 500 members of both Houses of Parliament, government officials and other guests in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday. The occasion was filled with the pageantry that the British manage better than anyone else. Five Yeomen of the Guard, in Tudor uniforms and carrying halberds, stood behind the President, who was flanked by parliamentary dignitaries in full robes and wigs. At the far end of the gallery, Reagan faced a portrait of George III, as he graciously noted in his speech. The President recalled...
...refer to in private as "the Kirkpatrick problem." Worse, the speech came only days after she and Secretary of State Alexander Haig deeply embarrassed the Administration by missing signals on how the U.S. should vote on a Security Council resolution concerning a Falklands ceasefire. The two events served to highlight the apparent inability of Reagan's foreign policy team to speak with a single, coherent voice. But they also renewed speculation that Kirkpatrick, who has had a long-running feud with Haig, might be removed from her U.N. post...
...helped me do other things," she says. She has become an avid sports fan with cable television hookups that allow her to follow several baseball teams on a daily basis, and she counts a trip to Los Angeles to see Fernando Valenzuela pitch in the World Series as a highlight of her senior year...
Shallow, a native Bostonian, has witnessed countless Commencements. But he says he's been disappoint with the last couple of Commencements speakers. "Watson was just so-so and Vance didn't impress me that much either." he says The highlight at Commencement for Shallow is the student orations: "I always like those. Some of them really thrust into the administration...
...that prized innovation above all, and he was often unfavorably compared with his more radical contemporaries Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Who would have predicted, then, that a cycle of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets by Britain's Fitzwilliam Quartet would turn out to be the instrumental highlight of the New York season...