Word: tricolor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less noble in realization, but no less heartfelt in intent, is an eruption of red, white and blue that is spattering America like Bicentennial measles. It is spreading-literally-from top to bottom, from tricolored wigs to toilet seats, planes and trains to municipal fireplugs, Tiffany diadems to morticians' coffins. An instant industry has sprung up manufacturing Bicentennial gewgaws such as plastic tricornes, birthday buttons, patriotic bikinis and tricolor towels. With pride, affection and occasional humor, from motives ranging from crass commercialism to plain and fancy patriotism, Americans are splashing the land with primary color that, for a change...
Like the still snappy Stars and Stripes, the new Union Jack should become a staple at the New York City Ballet. Balanchine plans to combine them, then add Tricolor, a celebration of France, promised for 1977. The result will be a full night's entertainment called Entente Cordiale. It should be fun. It should also reaffirm Union Jack 's basic assertion that tribute is possible with out aesthetic taxation and its suggestion that glory, old or otherwise, is where you find...
...away, to be replaced by I.R.A. gunmen, who fire at the soldiers from behind parked cars before vanishing again themselves. These attacks have become so ritualized that Crossmagleners have posted signs warning incoming motorists whenever an army patrol ventures out. More often than not, the I.R.A.'s illegal tricolor flag hangs above the gutted town hall...
...fighters streaked in formation across the sky; a band struck up the national anthem; and Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez hoisted a red, yellow and blue tricolor over Venezuela's first commercial oil well on New Year's Day. Then cannon boomed their salute to the flag, whose position atop the well symbolized one of the most gentlemanly nationalizations in history...
...which has many Christians, complained that it would be swallowed up by the other three, which are populated by Arabs and blacks. It begged Paris not to abandon it, and the French National Assembly decided that the other three islands could go their way but Mayotte could wave the tricolor just as long as it wanted to. Last month Comoro's Chief Minister Ahmed Abdallah, a Moslem zealot, declared unilateral independence for all the islands, Mayotte included...