Word: processional
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Lurie's London backdrop betrays Lurie's critical love. This is not a James novel with wealthy Americans darting about wide-eyed in full-dress infatuation. Lurie shows us the procession of the Druids on Parliament Hill but does not spare us their absurdity, the anachronistic spectacles under their ancient...
The campaign had come to seem a sort of fixture in the American mind, like a long-running TV series by Norman Lear. It became a buzz in the background, sharp clusters of words emerging now and then ("Where's the beef?" . . . "You ain't seen nuthin'...
For two days after her death, her body lay in state at the Teen Murti House, the great mansion that had been Jawaharlal Nehru's residence during his years in power, while hundreds of thousands of her countrymen came to pay their respects. Early Saturday afternoon, her body was carried...
Unlike his popularly elected host, he will never have to ask, "How'm I doin' ?" Besides, his mellifluous British accent would never be comfortable with such guttural nativisms. But Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, 65, the King of Ghana's Asante people, still got along fine with New...
It was the most unusual opening in the 114-year history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ceremony began at the unaccustomed hour of 6:32 a.m. on the vast expanse of steps fronting New York City's most venerable art institution. There, five Maori women lifted their...