Word: processional
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He will need it all and a good deal more. Comes now the time when the old hoofer's original script has been exhausted, when the newness has faded, when the mischief makers in Washington and the world have sized him up. The procession of events and the demands...
For all its social and historical significance, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was something else as well: an event of unparalleled visual splendor. To capture the pageantry and pomp of the occasion, TIME deployed a team of photographers in London. They came back with some of the...
The eye-catching shots came courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corp., which shared television rights to the ceremony with Independent Television (ITV) and had choice camera locations outside. The BBC supplied its all-day feed to 81 foreign broadcasting companies, including ABC, CBS and NBC. Especially remarkable were the BBC...
...eleven royal coaches roll toward St. Paul's, and an expected 2 million spectators jam the processional route, cheering, shouting, waving flags and banners, the princely bridegroom might still take a fast two-step forward in time, thinking about another occasion on which he will be in such a procession, hearing such cheering. But he will be carrying more years then, and a much graver weight. Better to dwell in the present, when the shadows have been beaten back for a few festive days, and a watching world wants to crown him and his bride with only one wish...
Toward the end of his life, Guston was painting the world as a charnel house of gross dreams and irreconcilable conflicts: no satisfaction anywhere, except in the creamy, impasted paint, which remained as lavish as in his abstract paintings. The essential Guston is all there in a work like Entrance...