Word: anthem
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...Attention to detail did not come cheap. Disney balked at the proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...
...offensive military capability, and to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a contentious memorial for dead war veterans (including World War II war criminals), have elicited outcries abroad but little to none at home. Two years ago the Diet restored the World War II-era Hinomaru flag and Emperor-worshiping Kimigayo anthem as official standard-bearers for the nation. A film like Pearl Harbor, says the Prime Minister's spokesman, Kazuhiko Koshikawa, is "quite fictitious and one-sided. Japan is portrayed as the enemy, and wrong. The U.S. is portrayed as right...
...brick 4,700-seater placed as softly as a Texas Leaguer at a riverbend that spent a hundred years waiting for a ballfield. I head for Will Call as Luci, with her sixth sense about shopping, heads for Souvenirs, which is taking its signal to close from the National Anthem, now being sung. The young man locking the door lets her in, and I join the others after picking up our tickets. Caroline, of course, wants everything in sight. I veto a small bat, which I imagine her using on her infant brother Jack, and also a souvenir ball because...
...didn't know that there were 13 original colonies or that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. One-quarter didn't know who fought in the Civil War, and almost one third didn't know that Francis Scott Key wrote America's national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner...
...high velocity associated with punk rock are all in place, but the subject matter is often the stuff of Freddie Prinze Jr. movies. Nearly every song is concerned with a universal adolescent experience: a terrifying first date; a holiday with grotesque relatives; a romance at a rock concert. Anthem Part Two presumes to whine on behalf of everybody under 18: "Corporate leaders, politicians/ Kids can't vote, adults elect them... If we're f___ed up, you're to blame." As John McCain does with the G.O.P., singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge, 25, singer/bassist Mark Hoppus, 29, and drummer Travis Barker...