Word: kliegs
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...minutes to 8 on Saturday night?the evening arrival was carefully chosen so as not to violate the Jewish Sabbath?the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"?to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...
...thinks much at all, in the roar and glitter. On the street outside a crowd has gathered, attracted by the klieg lights swooping over Cambridge, and by Robert Blake, Man of the Year. Blake, who says he's "never won nuttin' like dis before", leans out the window and waves to his teenage fans. After a while he is pulled back inside, and the window shut. Those within have paid to laugh; serious adulation is out of place...
...lights blaze on in the warm pool room and upstairs where the crocodiles smile. But it's nice out on the street; the klieg lights are off and the darkness is refreshingly cold. Too much Pudding leaves a sickly-sweet taste, like cheap champagne...
...obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
There are three steps at the entrance; a panel of Klieg lights is mounted above the master's desk for press conferences...