Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul's Cathedral. Across the plaza Terry Spencer crouched in a fourth-floor window and photographed the royal procession. Nearby, Dirck Halstead snapped the passing parade, then joined other photographers in a champagne toast for the bride and bridegroom. After taking pictures of the fireworks display in Hyde Park on the eve of the wedding, Neil Leifer grabbed three hours of sleep before moving into place outside Buckingham Palace at 5:30 a.m. Says he: "The combination of the handsome royal couple, glinting horse-drawn carriages and waving British flags was a photographer's dream...
...realize that each firework that goes up is money out of their pocket?" They must realize it; the press, after all, has been keeping a running tab on the celebration for weeks. The point is, no one especially cares: not about the cost of the wedding-eve fireworks in Hyde Park ($16,000); nor the wedding cake (maybe $6,000); nor the entire jamboree (estimated conservatively at a million dollars...
...seems easier for everyone, however, to give three cheers and subsume the flames that came from Brixton and Manchester and Liverpool in the more congenial firelight of the wedding-eve pyrotechnics at Hyde Park and the 101 celebratory bonfires ignited all over the kingdom, from Scotland and Wales to the Shetlands and the Scillys, even to the embattled north of Ireland. "When politics are in rather a mess," remarks Lady Elizabeth Longford, a historian and biographer, "any institution that is above politics gets an extra dose of glamour...
...pyrotechnic extravagance that celebrated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749. It was for that occasion that Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks, which will also accompany the meteor shower of bombshells, flash reports, bombettes, pirouettes, Catherine wheels, saucissons, serpents and good old-fashioned detonations over Hyde Park on the wedding eve this week. Parker's field lieutenant is an intense 29-year veteran of Paines Fireworks Co., Roly Harrison, who admits that, when the time comes for ignition, the entire display is "essentially a one-man show." He leaves little doubt who that...
William Danvers, an aide to Rep. Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.) and another participant in last night's K-School discussion, endorsed the Hyde-Edwards proposal after he contradicted Brinson's statements about the difficulty in implementing...