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Sound the war cries, round up our youth, oil the tanks, light up the sky with the awesome splendor of nuclear weaponry! We're off to war! Damn...
Opening ceremonies, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2:30-4:30 p.m.: For lovers of panoply, the parade of athletes from 37 nations and the lighting of the Olympic flame are traditions that never lose their splendor...
There remain in Olympic competition a tradition and splendor worth preserving. The Olympics allow the world to see its best athletes in a special...
...artists' narcissism, it should have been a greater cause for concern. It was not because so many people actually liked Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" and because art critics were overwhelmed to see the masses flocking to such "blockbuster" exhibitions as Treasures of Tutankhamon and Splendor of Dresden. Few critics concerned themselves with whether these new-found museum visitors were learning anything significant about art history at these shows...
...Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went to the offshore island of Quemoy to recruit them for the Allied cause. On the island, he remembers, he found himself living "in 12th century splendor. The pirates had stolen some very fine old furniture...