Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golden autumn sunlight dappled the. freshly whitened south portico of the White House, and a gardener steadily swept at the fallen leaves around the diplomatic entrance. At one minute before 2, the shrieking sirens of an official motorcade split the air, and quickly pomp and circumstance turned into slapstick comedy. The big black limousine pulled up smartly before the red-carpeted doorway. Out popped a beaming Ronald Reagan and his smiling wife...
...argument it mounts really belongs to a book, not an exhibition, and it is far better done by the catalogue, which is a model of serious, popular historical reconstruction. In the museum, the objects, drawn from national collections in Scandinavia, England, Ireland and elsewhere, seem overcome by the pomp of their display: case after beautifully lighted case, spread wide out to allow for crowd passage, each enshrining its sparse array of broken pins and chipped beads. In this way the socially interesting small change of archaeology is implicitly promoted to "treasure": The Search for/ The Tomb of/ The Magic...
...Amid pomp and protest, the limping Olympiad takes...
Despite all that pomp, no one at the opening ceremonies of the XXII Olympiad last Saturday could forget that it was something less than the real thing. About 30 countries that had planned to send athletes decided not to because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Of the 81 countries participating, 16 staged symbolic protests during the opening-day parade by carrying Olympic banners rather than their national flags...
...Kremlin's evident jubilation over his trip was scarcely reassuring. He had asked that the meeting be treated as a "working visit," with a minimum of pomp. When a tense but determined Schmidt stepped down from his white and blue Luftwaffe jet at Moscow's Vnukovo II Airport, President Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on hand, along with a goose-stepping honor guard. Belying rumors about his ill health, Brezhnev strolled briskly across the Tarmac to greet Schmidt. The ceremony was clearly intended to convey the Kremlin's satisfaction that...