Word: processional
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With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction...
Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans...
Along Route 1 last week, 70 wiry South Vietnamese bent low on their racing bicycles, pedaling for all they were worth. Close behind were two vin tage French-made armored cars, their .30-caliber machine guns pointed unsportingly at spectators. It was an odd procession, and as it whizzed past...
Francesco Rosi, who directed Moment of Truth, makes films with a message, and in this film the message arrives in the very first scene. A funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession...
Slowly, solemnly, a procession of cowled monks and acolytes filed through the cloisters, chanting "Te lucis ante terminum." They entered a Spanish Renaissance courtyard and mounted a small stage shaded by a red-and-white-striped awning. "Good souls," the abbot sang, "the brothers have come today to show you...