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...Sunday, the 40th President raised his right hand and made the ritual pledge to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." The ceremony was private; the Inaugural date required by the Constitution, Jan. 20, fell on a Sunday this year, and Reagan had the political sense not to upstage either the Sabbath or the Super Bowl.* The ceremony was limited to the President and the Vice President and 95 guests: family and friends, the Cabinet, Congressional leaders and the President's closest aides. For the first time ever, news cameras were allowed to record the scene. Later in the day, Reagan...
...strength as a performer, if not as a presence, seems sapped. The music in each line of dialogue has become a jingle, a sentiment not so much spoken as marketed; then comes a pause for laughter or applause or just mute admiration. In the show's wonderfully discreet mating ritual, Shall We Dance?, his new Anna (Mary Beth Peil) looks nearly to be carrying Brynner around the stage. They are working gamely to erase (or is it only to evoke?) the memory of some beloved ghosts: Gertrude Lawrence and Deborah Kerr as Anna, and the vital, young Yul Brynner. Long...
Attacks like the strike against Rithysen have become an annual dry-season ritual in the six years since Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, then known as Cambodia, and installed the Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Even though the brutal former Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot had been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after...
Syria and some of the dissident Palestinian factions it supports had tried to block the meeting, fearing that it would reaffirm Arafat's waning control after almost 16 years as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Their fears were justified. In what has become something of a yearly ritual. Arafat tendered his resignation as chairman, only to reclaim the title the following day at the insistence of loudly cheering throngs. Said he: "I'll remain because I am needed...
...land work, from haymakers to grooms, trainers and jockeys, without the least sign of overt condescension. Across the Channel, patrons liked pictures of drunken, vomiting peasants in the Dutch manner: a class zoo. Not in England, where Stubbs painted the cult of the horse with rapt attention, as a ritual focus of many skills and several mutually dependent classes...