Word: solemnizing
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...COLUMN of flame: Vegas is the most unbelievable of cities. From the air, the solemn, silent desert appears to have split a wayward seam, spewing forth a hidden cache of tawdry jewels. Bingo, Nevada style...
...opening scene, the boy feels honored that he has "joined the company of men." In another age, Munger might have been a typical American golden boy, son of a tire recapper and a tireless, depleted mother, himself a gas station attendant, possessed of a muscled torso and a solemn, black-haired girlfriend (later wife) who holds back her sex until he confesses his love. But in 1969, cruising with fellow loafers past drive-ins and hamburger stands, boxing a few stumblebums for the cash it pays, Ernie is merely another case of development arrested by outdated and neglected traditions...
...from the orchestra floats a vaguely medieval sound: thick, sonorous and brassy. The dancers parade in solemn sequence across the softly lit stage, looking rather like harlequins in leotards. When they reach the footlights, the mood is suddenly jolted by a more familiar noise: the harsh twang of amplified guitars and the racketing thump of a rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal...
...bicycles or cars or ancient trucks, clinging precariously to the roofs and sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...
...delegates cheered last week, Abel set an aggressive tone on other matters. "We will want a wage increase, and not just another wage increase, but a very, very substantial one," he said. "We want a shorter work week. We want still better pensions." Besides all that, Abel gave his "solemn pledge" that a cost-of-living escalator, which the U.S.W. gave up in 1959, will be restored. He will also propose that the entire steel industry shut down for two weeks' vacation in the summer. That would be a costly proposition to the mill managers, who would have...