Word: processional
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Goretta's manipulation of shots is very sophisticated, relying most heavily on foreshortening and surprising juxtaposition. The single partially telling image followed by the truly telling one, is one of Goretta's favorite ways of playing games with our illusions and expectations. Thus Goretta can give us the essentials of...
More than Degas' unfailing self-control comes across in these statuettes, though. Degas' was a classicism with a difference, and that difference was a caustic, often cruel, streak of irony. A few pieces in particular demonstrate this world-view. The first constitute a procession of "grands arabesques"--the term is...
Security for the trip was tight. Concerned by a recent discovery of arms caches in the area, motorcycle policemen scoured the scrub on either side of the route, while Air Force and police helicopters patrolled overhead. Officials held their breaths as the spacecraft and its transporter-47.6 meters (153 ft...
As conch shells and cymbals sounded, the first flower-decked palanquin, bearing the leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the Yamuna River meets the Ganges. Alongside marched a troop of elephants, trumpeting, their heaving bodies covered with garlands and painted...
Horns, gongs and drums sounded through the Royal Plaza of Bangkok last week to herald a royal wedding. Just before the astrologically auspicious moment for their marriage ceremony-8:39 a.m.-Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, and his first cousin, Somsawali Kittiyakorn, 19, rolled up to the palace in a procession...