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...colored flesh sagged in folds from his face, his palsied right hand trembled continuously, and the speech-once shrill and demanding-was slurred and frequently unintelligible. The figure, barely 5 ft. 3 in. tall, had never been especially heroic, even in a general's uniform decorated with medals, sash and sword; in recent years it seemed smaller and withered. But until last week, Franco never relaxed the hard control he wielded over Spain for almost 40 years-not even in 1974, when he temporarily turned over his powers to Prince Juan Carlos after an attack of phlebitis. A stern...
...Protestant William, Prince of Orange's victory over the Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. In a way, it is a hearkening back to the days of Protestant ascendency; when that can't be realized through traditional lyrics like "Boyne" and "The Sash," there are modern versions for the same tunes: "If guns are made for shooting, then skulls are made to crack/You've never seen a better Taig, than with a bullet in his back...
...mile procession route past an estimated 500,000 people to the Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall in downtown Taipei. There, to the accompaniment of piped-in elegiac music, thousands walked past the open coffin. The Generalissimo's body was clothed in a black Chinese gown with the red sash of the republic's highest order across his chest; his face, thin and white, bore a slight smile and showed no sign of the heart and bladder disease that had made him an invalid and recluse for most of the three years before his death...
...While his current experiment is called A Letter to Queen Victoria, it has nothing to do with Queen Victoria. She does appear briefly in the person of Wilson's 88-year-old grandmother, Alma Hamilton, who is adorned in a white gown, black sunglasses and a regal red sash. Unlike The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973), which lasted twelve hours and centered on painterly images evolving in glacially slow motion and almost total silence, Queen Victoria consists mainly of verbal anarchy. In a typical scene, characters shoutingly reiterate the following word-sounds contrapuntally...
...army payroll is inflated with fake names) and for refusing to take orders from the National Assembly. At the presidential palace, Lon Nol threw a champagne party for Fernandez and his successor, Lieut. General Sak Sutsakhan. Fernandez wept and kissed the national flag as the green-and-red sash of the Grand Cross was placed over his shoulders...