Word: pomp
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...perceptions changed measurably -- and for the better -- on both sides. This was true for the delighted Washington bystanders who had their hands pumped by Gorbachev; it was true for the fur-hatted Muscovites who huddled under a giant TV screen on Kalinin Prospect to watch their leader's pomp-filled arrival ceremony at the White House; and it was true, above all, for the two men who faced each other across the negotiating table...
Chalk One Up For Divestment: As graduating seniors received their diplomas with all the pomp and circumstance they could muster, the University announced on June 11 that four prodivestment candidates had won election to the 30-member Board of Overseers...
First, as always, came the pomp and the outpourings of adulation. A military band blared and a cheering throng waved yellow-and-white papal flags at Miami International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace...
Chalk One Up For Divestment: As graduating seniors received their diplomas with all the pomp and circumstance they could muster, the University announced on June 11 that four pro-divestment candidates had won election to the 30-member Board of Overseers...
...Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most of the talk is badinage rather than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that so-called victimless crimes generate huge amounts of cash, which can then be used to suborn...