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...effects at the last minute. Two: Director Louis Leterrier and his team dared to remake the 1981 original, replacing stop-motion genius Ray Harryhausen's handcrafted creatures - Medusa, the Kraken, the giant scorpions, etc. - with computer-generated ones. Three: The new picture reduces the role of Buba the mechanical owl, one of Harryhausen's signature inventions, to a perfunctory cameo. And fourth: Well, a lot of critics just don't like...
...Everyone mentioned the war. Georgian singer Buba Kikabidze said he was returning awards given to him by the Russian government and would cancel an upcoming concert at the Kremlin. Fellow singer Tamriko Chokhonelidze said she was sorry that the invader was an orthodox Christian nation, just as Georgia is, but "our spirit will make us have more children and our children will be speaking and singing Georgian." Georgian mothers, she said, will always sing lullabies to their children. Every so often, a speaker would shout "Long live!" and the crowd responded instantly with "Georgia...
...easy to address an infant solely in the language of the Old Testament. Ben-Yehuda had to keep inventing words: buba (doll), glida (ice cream), mimkhata (handkerchief). When more children appeared (eleven in all), they too had to speak entirely in the dead language that Ben-Yehuda was almost single handedly bringing back to life. Recalls his daughter Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittman, now 75: "Sometimes the other children would mock us because they didn't understand the Hebrew words we were using...
Then Toronto's Bill Buba scored on the power play less than a minute into the second period, and teammate Len Burman tied the score at 6:13. But Harvard. even without DeMichele and Mark was skating and hitting evenly with the Blues. and for the remainder of the period matched them goal for goal...
...least their most flamboyant representative and most clamorous public relations man. His primary goal is to create a new Negro self-image, based not on white middleclass stereotypes, but on the Negro's African heritage. When I went in to see him, he was wearing a green buba--a long shirt of African origin--speaking into the telephone in Swahili...
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