Word: solemnizations
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...well-placed cameras, available to all networks, excelled in combining intimacy with spectacle. The result was less pointless darting around by cameras than usual. Gone also was another fixture of solemn English occasions, the reverent intonations of the late BBC commentator Richard Dimbleby, who whispered as if he might spoil someone's putt. It being morning-show time back in the States, the David Hartmans and Jane Pauleys, practiced in the smiling art of undemanding chatter, now reinforced the American journalistic hardhats in their vantage points along the parade route. Along with much inevitable pageant-babble, they provided useful...
...mocks his belief in suicide as consolation, recalls his solemn and frantic pursuit of women, and reprints some of his early and awkward literary efforts. In the process, with an artlessness that conceals art, he manages to re-create not only his early self but the epoch that formed...
...should one day decide to oust the usurper. Giscard ended his address with an emotional invocation: "In these difficult times, when evil prowls and strikes in the world, I hope that Providence will watch over France, for its happiness, its well-being and its greatness." Finally, he intoned a solemn "au revoir, "rose and walked slowly out of camera view to the music of the Marseillaise. Following the President's exit, France's national anthem continued to be played at a dirgelike pace for 53 seconds while the camera focused on Giscard's empty chair...
...Kaufman is more of a public performer who relishes making dramatic speeches to packed audiences of edgy moneymen. When he furrows his brow and speaks in slow, solemn tones, the markets often quake. Early last year he told a group of bankers that the U.S. was "lurching toward a national economic emergency." That same day the Dow Jones index dropped 18 points. One day last week bond prices rallied, in part on the rumor that Kaufman was turning optimistic, only to lose momentum when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline...
...consider myself an ardent teminist, and at no time this past fall was I appalled or embarassed by the material in Biology 7b. I sometimes think that women who consider themselves activist feminists feel it a solemn duty to eradicate from their surroundings all things which they view as sexist. Jokes about sex are forbidden, especially in lecture, and even straight physiological information about the functioning of sexual organs is subject to criticism. It was very clear that some of the negative comments made about lecturers in Biology 7b were motivated out of prudery, under the guise of feminism...