Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work is alternately baffling and lucid, and should be see. Welles is certainly one of the finest contemporary directors; his camera work makes the French "nouvelle vague" group look amateurish. One particularly effective scene shows the grandeur of a penitentes procession in Barcelona. The black-robed figures passing in torchlight surpass the processions in Ivan the Terrible, for Welles is always free of the episodic tableau photography that marred Eisenstein's films...
Republicans marched in a wet "torchlight parade" into their final "touchdown rally" last night. Democrats gathered for a jubilant "pre-election victory rally" at the same time several miles away...
...four intramural teams in each sport-the red-shirted Romans, the green Gauls, the grey Greeks, the orange Saxons. Belonging grows as the morning teacher turns afternoon coach, yelling, "Tail down, Jones!" It mounts in a delirious rally before the Exeter game, and if victory comes, in a yowling torchlight parade and huge campus bonfire, On to Abbot Academy...
...evil spirits refused to do a fadeout. The last straw for Nkrumah was the bombing fortnight ago of a torchlight parade that was celebrating an event close to his heart-his own 53rd birthday. Osagyefo was nowhere near the blasts, but they jolted him into declaring a state of emergency "to rid Accra, and indeed Ghana, of such acts of savagery." Troops with tommy guns and light tanks guarded the approaches to Flagstaff House where Nkrumah, afraid to appear in public, has made himself a virtual prisoner...
...grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...