Word: rit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived in a glass coach and took her seat on a gilded throne. Up strode a graceful man in a wig, damask robe and black velvet breeches. Kneeling, he handed the monarch her speech. Kneeling, he took it back after Elizabeth had read it - thus opening Parliament with a rit ual that has scarcely changed at all since the first Elizabeth performed it 400 years...
Special Pinnacle. "When I began." Aznavour says, "the radio banned my songs. They didn't want to hear my forbidden words. Nothing is dirty, everything is poetic-but moral hypocrites never admit this. For ten years the ban went on, forbidden, la vérité! Then, five years ago, the pressure of the truth was too much-I was allowed to speak my message: 'Live now, tomorrow who knows...