Word: pageants
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Their words didn't grab the nation's attention immediately. The first edition of the journals didn't appear until eight years after the expedition ended, in 1814. Hundreds of books later, it's hard to imagine the absence of Lewis and Clark from the pageant of popular American history. Without them, there would still be stirring tales of exploration but none that turn on the exquisite irony of an adolescent Indian girl giving crucial advice to two male Army officers. There would still be images of frontier adversity but none so stunning as that of Lewis expecting...
...museum about the town’s development as a railroad suburb in the beginning of the twentieth century. But instead of describing daily life in 1915, the depot’s first major event—a showing of old footage from the 1915 “Pageant of Lexington” which celebrates the battle—indicates that even in remembering Lexington’s twentieth century, the town still has one eye looking...
Young white women in white togas are shown doing an interpretive dance at a pond; records from the event say they are nymphs representing nature and the elements. The silent film of the pageant shows a young white woman as the “Goddess of Peace” standing elevated above soldiers and rioters. Playing into the standard line of Lexington’s immense importance, the local paper wrote last week that this scene represents “the debt the world owes to Lexington for her attainment of liberty...
...congregations without state approval worship at their peril. Even hill-tribe Christmas celebrations, which are held without interference in other parts of Vietnam, are subject to harassment. Leh Ksor, 35, a new resident of Raleigh, recalls how police two years ago used tear gas to break up a Christmas pageant in a highland village near the Cambodian border. Parents, coughing and wheezing, grabbed their children and fled in terror, only to be beaten by waiting police...
...Consider the 1947 Miss Italy contest. Among the also-rans: Silvana Mangano, a sensation with her hiked-up skirt and dirty dancing in "Bitter Rice," and Eleonora Rossi Drago, the keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses...