Word: dion
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...capitalism, imperialism and whatever else. He offers, in short, the perfect place on a Friday evening in July for a self-proclaimed “American English training center” to hold an English karaoke competition, with its Chinese employees adopting the voices of Richard Marx and Celine Dion...
...Leiber and Stoller left Atlantic in 1963 to form their own label, Red Bird. As composers, they soon ceased writing hits. But their catalog was so rich that it kept generating them. Dion covered two Drifters songs, "Ruby Baby" from ?956 and "Drip Drop" from ?958. At least five L&S oldies became later Top "0 hits: "I (Who have Nothing)" (Tom Jones), "I?m a Woman" (Maria Muldaur), "On Broadway" (George Benson), "Spanish Harlem" (Aretha Franklin) and "There Goes My Baby" (Donna Summer). In the curio category are a rendition of "Stand by Me" by one Cassius Clay...
...Manati Park in the Dominican Republic, one of the world's most controversial facilities, techno music blares from two large speakers as five dolphins bounce balls and beach themselves on concrete for $7 photo ops. Then the contact sport begins. To the strains of a Celine Dion ballad, a girl douses her hands and feet in disinfectant and grabs hold of dolphin Vicki's pectoral fins. Vicki pulls her passenger along the length of the 10-yd. by 17-yd. pool and returns to the trainer for a reward--two pieces of fish. Vicki then swims up to a group...
...pier to the apartment raising from the depths to the apparition of the seemingly-limitless office space, the stylized realism of the design concept challenges the technical abilities of students just as far as they can be successfully pushed. The transition and conflation of huge headshots of Billy and Dion is a brilliant but slightly overstated touch that aids the surreal transition of Billy into both Billy and Dion...
David G. Corlette’s lighting design heightens the sense of isolation among the characters, especially at subtle moments like Dion’s sleeping daughter (Jelena Pejkovic ’03) or Margaret abandoned in a corner far upstage while Dion dallies with his mistress (in a disappointingly brief appearance by the charming Kate A. Agresta ’02). Lighting shifts also add the little touches that provide some memorable visual effects, such as the television flickering to life in the living room or illuminating a pathetic, rejected Billy trapped inside a suspended telephone booth...