Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political events is relentlessly building. One of the production's inspired touches is to punctuate the private doings and undoings of the characters with snatches of contemporaneous news footage. These black-and-white bulletins from the front trumpet the glory of the Empire in all its turbaned pomp, while providing hearty reports on wartime developments in the Asian theater. But the newsreels also serve a subtler purpose. Through their gung-ho descriptions of Gunga Din's descendants they present, unvarnished, Britain's official stance toward its colonies, a paternalism compounded of arrogance and affection...
...crowned. Thus the artist whose feathery trees and pastoral scenes of gallantry seem the very essence of rococo sensibility only reached the edge of the rococo. His time was that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. If the intimacy of his art seems so far from the bemusing pomp of Versailles, it is partly because his imitators lagged; it took time to convert the scenography of Watteau's fugitive, shadowed mind into a system of decor suitable for the Pompadour...
Pageantry and pomp, tear sand cheers, and, as ever, magic in the moment...
...leads the pomp and ceremony at the economic summit in London. With television cameras following his every move, Ronald Reagan seems to glide from one glorious "photo opportunity" to another...
...most West Germans, no matter what their age, the pomp surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings came as a painful reminder that even after 35 years as a democratic country, the Federal Republic is not regarded in quite the same way as other West European nations. The D-day ceremonies posed a dilemma for West Germans. They would have liked to be part of a commemoration, but they could hardly be-and were not-expected to join in the celebration of what was for them a historic defeat. On the other hand, as key members of NATO, they...