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...feel as warmly toward Irabu as they do toward Hideo Nomo, whose quest to pitch in the majors was both earlier and purer, they are nonetheless proud. The headline in Asahi Shimbun--NEW YORK DRUNK ON IRABU'S FIRST VICTORY--was confirmed by the New York Post--BANZAI! Still, nobody expressed Irabu's debut better than his catcher. An hour after the game, Girardi sat at his locker and said, "To come to a new country, to make adjustments to your pitching motion, to communicate without knowing the language, to stay focused in a circus atmosphere...to do all that...
...hellcats. From Pinocchio on, the villain makes use of a sly sense of humor and a few goofy abettors. Scar, whom Irons plays with wicked precision as the purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane...
...first part of this project is an easy exercise in McDonald's history: food, folks and fun. U.S. News: "The pilots had break-fasted on plums and rice and wore white cloths marked 'Sure Victory' under their helmets." Newsweek: "There were toasts in sake. Three times the pilots shouted 'Banzai' for the emperor. That night the weather was rough. Many of the pilots stayed aboard for a last round of drinking...
...this operation we will meet the strongest opponent of all. I expect this operation to be a success." Genda, Fuchida and other officers joined him in eating surume (dried cuttlefish) for happiness and kachiguri (walnuts) for victory. Near portable Shinto shrines, they toasted the Emperor with sake and shouted, "Banzai...
...accompaniment of drums, gongs and three cheers of "Banzai!" Emperor ; Akihito was enthroned in Tokyo last week. It was the first such ceremony to be conducted under the country's postwar constitution, which stripped the Emperor of political power. But the presence of princes and princesses, Presidents and Prime Ministers solemnified the occasion, and leftists enlivened things with a dozen fires at shrines, military bases and subway stations...