Word: regalias
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Jack Guerney, (Peter O'Toole), the 13th Earl of Guerney has just come into his inheritance by his father's fatal eccentricity. (The old man accidentally hung himself to death in a cocktail hour habit of stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...effective beginnings in La Dolce Vita, when Anita Ekberg galloped up to the dome of St. Peter's dressed in a parody of a priest's outfit. Fellini even teases us by reprising a melody from La Dolce Vita as the clergy parade in their outré regalia...
...built his own shiny aluminum body held together by crude rivets; the car is pointed at the ends like a silver Buck Rogers rocket ship -enough to frighten drivers off the road on Santa Monica Boulevard. North Hollywood's Nudie the Tailor glorified his Pontiac Bonneville with Western regalia. The religious here do not settle for plastic Jesuses on the dash, they erect whole creches and biblical scenes next to the Kleenex boxes in their back windows...
...Japanese who hope and trust that TIME readers will show every respect to His Majesty have made the following request: let copies of the present issue lie face upward on all tables; let no object be placed upon the likeness of the Emperor, shown in his sacred enthronement regalia...
Buckley, who refused to lead last year's Commencement because he said he did not want to wear the ceremonial regalia, will open and close this year's Commencement-but minus the traditional sword...