So the visit by Mr. Obama, which he declared his first official campaign stop of the general-election campaign, was intended to be as rich with symbolism as political strategy.
It is based on a boast by Herzog, in which he declared that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris finished his film "Gates of Heaven," and it patiently follows Herzog from home to San Francisco, where the shoe is prepared by Alice Waters and her staff at Chez Panisse, boiled in stock for many hours, along the lines of pigs' feet.
There is archive footage of a speech by Colosio in which he declared: "I see in Mexico a hunger and a thirst for justice...women and men afflicted by the abuse of the authorities or by the arrogance of governmental offices".
Death and The King's Horseman also spawned an adaptation by a German television company, which he declared "misbegotten".
On the 24th of that same month, Boigny delivered a statement in the Assembly contesting the result of the elections, which he declared tainted by fraud.
Many of his articles in The Fatherland were hyperbolic, for instance comparing Kaiser Wilhelm II to Jesus Christ; in July 1915 he orchestrated a publicity stunt – reported on by The New York Times – in which he declared independence for Ireland in front of the Statue of Liberty; the real intention was to make the German lobby appear ridiculous in the eyes of the American public.
And in Mr. Arafat's case, that could mean an ultimate deadline not of Wednesday but of Sept. 13, by which he has pledged to declare a state.
"I am interested in everything that exists," Capek declared, by which he meant subjects from football to barn owls to Charlie Chaplin.
"Good for the stand," declares One Dog, by which he means another aspect of virile performance.
Bereft of his leadership, thousands of Christians apostatized (rejected their faith) or obtained libelli (certificates), by which they declared that they had sacrificed to the pagan gods.
