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...mess of spoilage (a union vice-presidency) by making a deal with a union thug named Tony Russo. Before long, Kilcoyne lands in the deadly end-justifies-the-means trap, winds up condoning mutilation and murder, puts union funds into such investments as race tracks and silk ties. By the time a Senate committee gets at him, he is powerful, self-assured, and cockily forgetful of his past actions...
...elevated platform, with its black-and-red-lacquered railings and its bright green flooring, four dancers in silk brocade robes turned their green-masked faces to the audience. The translucent music wavered hypnotically, swelling and fading in little drum-punctuated strands of sound. The dancers flexed their knees slowly, extended their slippered feet to describe airy figures on the dance cloth...
...second morning, Samuriwo emerged weary-eyed but unharmed, to be greeted by the joyous shouts of his people, and a long dagger of lightning, which superstitious natives immediately took as a sign from the gods hailing their new chief. Donning a suit and shot-silk tie, Willie, a prosperous, 45-year-old farmer, returned to Mahusekwa for the coronation...
...building on the wooded grounds of the Imperial Palace, attendants worked on her hair, turning the modern bob into the high coiffure that Japanese princesses wore back in the Middle Ages. They clothed her in the juni-hitoe, the "twelve-layered garment" of red, lavender, blue, green and white silk and brocade. Then they took her to the Kashikodokoro, the "awe-inspiring place" that houses the facsimile of the Sacred Mirror, one of the three symbols of the imperial office (the others: the Sacred Jewel, the Sacred Sword). There, promptly at 10:01, "the Ceremony Before the Great Ancestors" began...
Nobody gave a second glance to the four rows of ribbons on the silk stole of the curate as he greeted the members of the congregation. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist's, Anglican Church in the little Berkshire town of Crowthorne-like churchgoers throughout England-are growing used to having a middle-aged pastor with military decorations. In Britain today, the church is second only to "the City," London's commercial center, as the favored career for senior officers retiring from the armed services...