For those 12 minutes, the Lakers looked like their old selves, provoking analysts to proclaim the period of lethargy, inconsistency and struggle to be over.
In 1909, when the historian W. E. B. Du Bois delivered a paper to the American Historical Association on the benefits of Reconstruction, he was swimming against the tide of an entire body of scholarship proclaiming the period as a uniquely disastrous experiment that had proved the folly of racial equality.
The congress, modelled on that of the old Soviet Union, is supposed to take place every four years but it has been endlessly postponed as a result of the "special period" proclaimed at the time of the Soviet collapse.
"This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period," proclaimed Spicer.
And to the haters who say we only watch costume dramas for a heavy dose of upper-class escapism: what self-proclaimed period piece would be complete without the reminder that sewage and dirty water ran freely down the cobbled roads?
This spring, Governor Perry proclaimed "the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24 , 2011 as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas".
Nearby, a man, also in period clothing, proclaimed, "Extra, extra, Kennedy shot dead in Dallas, read all about it," as other men and women in vintage outfits handed out replicas of the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post from Nov. 23, 1963.
The three honorary memberships proclaimed in the early period were Fritz R. Huitfeldt (1883), Hans Grüner (1884) and Axel Huitfeldt (1889).
"What you see is what you see," proclaimed Frank Stella, expressing the period's preoccupation with art concerned only with the direct experience of color and form.
During this period he repeatedly proclaimed his support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and denounced Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
Later, the bishops decided to release the letter in 2000, which the church has proclaimed a Jubilee Year, a period that emphasizes themes of conversion and reconciliation.
