Word: solemnization
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...channels. That capacity will grow to some 70 or more channels in the 1990s as operators around the country install new equipment. The advanced hardware will create more room for rivals on the same system and a wealth of new programming opportunities for everything from local news shows to solemn religious services...
Somber drums banged, and flutes trilled a song of sadness. Shinto priests, accompanied by veiled artifacts too sacred to be seen, marched in solemn cadence. As 10,000 invited guests looked on, Emperor Akihito bowed. Facing the coffin of the man who was once revered by his people as a living divinity, Akihito intoned, "Filled with profound grief, we bid you farewell...
...battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them ((the Palestinians)) it's a festival, for us a continuous Yom Kippur," said Rehavam Ze'evi of the far-right Homeland Party, referring to the solemn day of atonement...
...Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...
...NIGGER" is a word we don't hear very often. Occassionally it is whispered as part of an insensitive joke. We read it in the pages of Twain's Huckleberry Finn as a solemn reminder of a past we are too embarrassed to remember. It is a harsh and frightening word that we would much rather forget. Moreover, in the year that Rev. Jesse Jackson became a legitimate political figure in the eyes of most Americans, hearing the word reminds us of how easy it is for us to ignore the racial discrimination that continues to persist in this nation...