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...Fai makes a pistol out of his thumb and forefinger, cocks his wrist and aims at an imaginary target across the room. "Locked and loaded," he says, looking over with a wide, confident, closed-mouth grin. It's 11:35 p.m., and he's ready for sport. This is a night for kau lui - a woman-hunting night...
...came to court but came instead to an agreement in which Marriott and Prime each put up $500,000 to enable as many as 90 old-timers to incorporate in 1986 as Franchise Associates, Inc. A year later, 54 of the licensees actually bought stock in the new company. FAI now includes 137 individually owned Howard Johnson's restaurants in 26 states, a far cry from the 1,040 of yesteryear, but still . . . And although they don't all have all 28 flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, an FAI spokesman admits, they all have at least 18. Which...
After every Harvard win, Sione leads the team in a Tongan victory dance. The players circle him chanting "fai'akoe" and leaping into the air while he answers "mata'usi" -- fun lies in store this night. "It's a dance my ancestors used to do," Sione explains, "before eating someone from a neighboring tribe...
...cheerful citizens were simply celebrating the annual Bang Fai festival, commemorating the birth, death and spiritual enlightenment of Buddha...
With Gallic grace, the French colonials joined in the almost weekly Laotian festivals. They range in riotousness from the spring fertility rites known as Bang Fai, when the men wave bamboo poles topped with phallic symbols and copulating puppets and the girls look on and giggle, to New Year's, when the King's elephants are gathered and lectured on good conduct. Many a Frenchman learned to play Laos' unchaperoned game of love, conducted to the music of khen pipes, and one French administrator in southern Laos chopped down all bridges into his domain once a year...