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...girl's name (cf. Randy and the Rainbows' "Denise") and a tempo close to the 1957 Maurice Williams "Stay." A boy invites a girl to "come, come, come out tonight ... to my Twist party," The percussion was the soon-to-be-familiar Seasons combination of hand-claps and marching feet that lent a military air to the enterprise. The unique element, of course, was Valli's voice, stretching two words into ten aching, urgent syllables ("Sheh-eh-eh-eh-eh-er-ry bay-yay-bee") over half of the four-line chorus. / Sheh-eh-ry, can you come out tonight...
...hurt are the poor and the marginalized. By refusing to recognize religious and ethnic diversity as an integral party of the new French nation, the government has only helped establish an atmosphere of distrust and fear. Instead of broadening economic opportunities, the French leadership has dragged its feet on economic reform and failed to broaden and deepen the common political and economic union across the continent...
...ensuing two-point conversion, O’Hagan dropped a couple steps back, and then sprinted forward determined to even the score. O’Hagan absorbed a hit from a Yale defender just a couple feet from the line, but willed himself forward, falling right on the goal line to tie the game...
...introduction of rice farming. Most Japanese festivals revolve around rice and the rice harvest. South Korean families use rice cakes and rice wine as offerings in traditional Confucian ceremonies to honor their ancestors. Many local superstitions are based on the misuse of rice. "If you step on rice, your feet will be twisted," one warns; "If you spill rice while rinsing it, you will have a miscarriage," predicts another...
...company is in the process of transforming 40,000 of Harvard’s books into digital documents.But the search engine was in the University’s libraries long before this year—through procrastinating carrel occupants prying into the pasts of fellow students toiling a few feet away. Indeed, Google has already transformed Harvard into a place where our classmates’ high school math league scores lie at our fingertips. And Vise lets us know how it happened...