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TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
...This is my 13th honorary degree, but this oneis really special, because, firstly, I was astudent there and [because] the pomp andcircumstance is certainly different from any ofthe degrees I have," she said Tuesday...
Matthews said that the attention paid to theVDP is partly inevitable. "Inherently, a visitingdirector project is [an HRDC] event from theget-go because there's a lot more pomp andcircumstance surrounding it," she said...
...much of the film. Margot (Isabelle Adjani) and Henri (Daniel Auteuil), sumptuously dressed (the mind boggles at just how much Adjani's dress must have cost), kneel in the cathedral while a chorus the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings in the background. Chereau impresses the luxury and pomp of the scene upon the viewer's mind, but undermines the splendor when, after Margot refuses to say "I do," her brother Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) hits her in the back of the head so that she assents...
...deep voice from above commanded everyone to "shut up, damn it," a near-naked man took his place on stage and a harpist began a "decomposed" version of "Pomp and Circumstance...