Word: dinned
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...were plenty of record label reps checking out the talent at NEMO's (New England Music Showcase's - what does the "O" stand for? I don't know) main event Friday night. There were also plenty of music execs snacking, drinking and chatting away on cell phones above the din of the club. This was to be expected: it's standard for the biz. More disturbing, though, was the surprisingly high number of high school-age looking couples making out and groping each other in the middle of the Axis for no apparent reason...
Tired of seeing their community portrayed as a martial camp in the Everglades, moderate Cuban Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami...
...film, based on a play by actor Ayub Khan Din, is the first feature by director Damien O'Donnell. It is billed as a comedy, and George's frustrations with his elusive, secretive family are surely funny. But Puri makes him more touching than a crude family tyrant. There is something lonely in his bustling blindness, something right about his resistance to sleazy modernism. He's both wrongheaded and good-hearted, and the actor and the film make something fine, winning and memorable of that conflict...
Hundreds of students cheering new residents of their Houses created a din that could be heard across campus at lunchtime yesterday...
...Tanaka clan!" he exclaims. He proceeds to execute the din mok (deft touch), the patented karate move of his shedoshi...