Word: processionals
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Frondel’s wife, Judith, a fellow minerologist and frequent collaborator, said that he maintained his sense of humor even as he struggled with Alzheimer’s disease. She said that in his final days he was visited by a steady procession of workers from his nursing home...
Schama, narrating in a scruffy leather jacket, is a popularizer in the best sense. He can be snarky, poetic or both, as when he describes Queen Victoria's funeral procession, the monarch dressed in white: "There was a touch of Miss Havisham about this--the 80-year-old, flower-bedecked...
No matter how often he imagines how he would look in the papers?all shot up or blown to pieces like so many of his friends?there are times when Ghulam Mohiuddin Sofi knows he made the right decision to stand for election. One of these sublime moments came last...
Nagasaki's best experiences are its surprises-like the kind stranger on a streetcar who invites me to dinner ("I have a daughter who studied English in Canada. Let me make you sushi!"). On my last Saturday in town, I am on my way to visit the Suwa Shinto Shrine...
Saengau rummages in a drawer and puts on a video of Baan Yandee's New Year festival. It shows a noisy, musical procession, where an elderly chap is carried though cobbled streets on a moth-eaten throne. "That's Jau Phaendin," he says reverently. "He is allowed to come back...