Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other extreme. The good Britannia Hospital could hardly be better equipped, or more doted on by a loving government. The film, which spans just one-day--the 500th anniversary of the hospital--encompasses the dedication of the fabulously expensive Millar Center for Advanced Surgical Procedure, and the pomp-filled visit of Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother. But as Anderson makes abundantly clear, all the money in Arabia couldn't sweeten this tittle health facility...
...fairness we should not dismiss the pomp and ceremony that accompany a State of the Union address. The television pictures of the White House and Capitol floodlighted at night are enough to stir even the most jaded American. The collected leadership in the House chamber dressed in their Sunday best is a grand sight. But more and more the import of the President's words is lost in the hoopla. The sights and sounds become more important than the substance, the entertainment more coveted than the information. When a President delivers a smash speech, he often fools himself into...
...before slamming the closet door for good, a few comments are in order about this 90-minute satire of marriage and its pomp and circumstance. Filmed entirely in black and white. The Wedding Party depicts the ludicrous preparations for the marriage of newlyweds Charlie (Charles Pfluger) to Josephine (Clayburgh). Starting from the arrival of the groom's party on Josephine's modest family Island, the plot traces all the various preparations for this highly intricate ceremony Charlie and his two consorts (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley) arrive in a flurry of activity, meeting the extended family of sisters, cousins...
...minute horseback ride around his moated ranch outside the capital, Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people of Brazil...
Fireworks banged and twinkled in the night skies over Canberra last month: amid pomp, ceremony, black ties, tiaras and champagne, Queen Elizabeth II declared Australia's new National Gallery open to the public. Nine years in building, almost 20 in planning, the gallery, for the time being at least, eclipsed every other cultural institution in Australia. "The establishment of a national collection," remarked the Queen in her speech, "is also the establishment of a national identity." The A.N.G.'s Australian director, James Mollison, 50, promised more to come. "Eventually," he declared, "this gallery will be so full...