Bill Clinton will stand in the spotlight during three days of military pageantry, with no other world leader present.

Hollywood is suddenly - that is, once again - heavily invested in the military pageantry of the past, which suggests that quite a few filmmakers are betting that the public will be interested, too.

Behold a military pageantry, beautiful and memorable.

Many of Hartley's Berlin paintings were further inspired by the German military pageantry then on display, though his view of this subject changed after the outbreak of World War I, once war was no longer "a romantic but a real reality."

And he distilled the same sentiments into paintings, drawings and prints, which often trembled with his love of the American landscape, of military pageantry and of blond, muscular young men.

Hartley's celebration of military pageantry with handsome soldiers in bright uniforms and feathered helmets gave way to the bitter reality of dead bodies in ditches.

If this survey lacks a few essentials, like an example of the wonderful still lifes he painted in Berlin in 1913 and 1914, which involved German military pageantry, no matter.

Amid the military pageantry of the farewell ceremony for Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger on Tuesday came a poignant reminder of military reality and a footnote to recent history.

German military pageantry was shaped by referring to the recorded material and input from military advisers.