Word: solemnizations
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Manekshaw promised the Pakistanis his "solemn assurance" that those troops who surrendered would "be treated to dignity and respect that soldiers are entitled to." He added that he would "abide by the provisions of the Geneva Conventions." These promises were later reiterated in the documents signed by both the Pakistani and Indian commanders upon the surrender of the Pakistani forces...
...Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ. In short, Nauman has had the full treatment. Mount Culture labors, and out he pops...
...both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...
...standing ovation crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal. Schwartz, who says that his play works best when least Biblical in tone, is pleased with this...
...many more in flak vests, baseball caps and heavy boots, come and go in the area of the BIA building. It is a reunion for many of the federal marshals, distinctive in their flag-bedecked blue jumpsuits. Across the street, on a dried mudbank, sit a line of solemn-faced Indians taking...