Word: dong
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...training was only supposed to last three months but it stretched to nearly three years as relations between North and South improved. "The men were unhappy," recalls former trainer Yang Dong Su. "There was a lot of tension." On the morning of Aug. 23, 1971, the recruits snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck...
...Candles, Hughes’ debut as a director (he cut his teeth writing comedies like Mr. Mom and National Lampoon’s Vacation) was unique in its realism. Samantha,a teenage movie character who was actually played by a teenager, suffered painfully embarrassing moments, including watching Long Duk Dong find some love within five hours of arriving in town. She was gawky, frequently chagrined, uncomfortable at home and at school—she was real, and the movie was real...
Sitting at the baby grand piano in the Winthrop JCR, Dong directs the chorus of physics students surrounding him, making sure they not only hit the right notes but also pronounce equations accurately as they sing. As Heller shows the actors their dance moves for the section scene, she proposes an arm movement to represent the lyric about vectors and wonders aloud about what precisely a vector is. (“Vectors have magnitude and direction,” giggles one of the more physics-savvy chorus members...
...Dong describes the music in his 258-page script as a combination of “traditional 16th-century choral singing, energetic Broadway dance numbers, cheesy pop ballads, 19th-century waltzes, and pretty much everything in between.” Les Phys also pokes fun at the Broadway genre, with a running Les Misérables gag and references to everything from The Sound of Music to “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the song lyrics. Heller reflects this playfulness in dance sequences that parody famous Broadway scenes. “There?...
Despite songs like “Positive-Definite Non-Degenerate Symmetric Bilinear Forms,” Dong insists that Les Phys is not just for physics afficionados. For him, physics and music go hand in hand, as his protagonist sings in “The Sound of Physics?...