So, in a sense, President F. W. de Klerk's "unbanning" and call for negotiations last week moves the situation back where it was in 1960 when Henrik Verwoerd was building the elaborate trappings of apartheid.

The object of this attention sank down amid his elaborate trappings, removed the straw hat from his perspiring head, and tried to figure out just what had happened to him.

The horse has elaborate trappings: bridle, saddle, imitation-fur saddle pad and stirrups.

The Calvinism of the reformers led by Knox resulted in a settlement that adopted a Presbyterian system and rejected most of the elaborate trappings of the medieval church.

The three-row machine held 70 hand-carved animals, of slender and stylized bodies, spirited expressions and elaborate trappings.

Karl Lagerfeld wasn't the first fashion designer to purge himself of his elaborate trappings in the name of modernity.

The royal elephant fresco near the middle of the gallery is a case in point: there, a huge, feather-crowned elephant wearing elaborate trappings and bearing the royal cipher seems about to charge out of the painting.

For Mr. Arafat, that means giving up the illusions of words and the elaborate trappings of a nonexistent state for the gritty, real problems of turf.

It takes three to five days to paint each horse, given their elaborate floral trappings of purple, yellow and red dahlias, roses and tulips.

Lord Oswal shared the minotaur's distaste for the elaborate trappings Huma had never cared for in life, but there had been other things to consider.