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...city's numerous hotels and karaoke bars. Smaller lights also begin to blink on in the rows of brand-new apartment buildings that line the riverbank for miles. Behind one of the buildings, a fountain of noise and color erupts as firecrackers and exploding rockets mark a wedding banquet...
...city's numerous hotels and karaoke bars. Smaller lights also begin to blink on in the rows of brand-new apartment buildings that line the riverbank for miles. Behind one of the buildings, a fountain of noise and color erupts as firecrackers and exploding rockets mark a wedding banquet...
...made a difference that year.”After that victory, Benkreira and his teammates went to Taiwan, where they competed against some of the world’s best teams. At the closing dinner, flags from each institution were placed along the second tier of the banquet hall. “Some guy from Australia with a mohawk went up and grabbed our flag,” recalls senior Dan Kettler, Benkreira’s roommate. “He ran off and we booked it trying to catch him. Mansour basically scared the crap...
...Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)--are brought home to receive a nation's thanks and to charm the citizens into buying more war bonds. In a packed arena the three re-enact the raising on an imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational legend that shrouds the dreadful truth: of young...
...there ever was one. That little three-note figure - doo-do-de, doo-do-de, doo-do-de - is still one of the most thrilling buildups in the history of the musical theater. But it's just the ice cream sundae at the end of Marvin Hamlisch's rich banquet of a score, with its equal helpings of Tin Pan Alley schmaltz and modernist invention. Sure, it's too soon for a Chorus Line revival. But it's also too soon to dismiss this show with mere nostalgia...