Word: lions
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This Chinese New Year celebration began with a traditional lion dance. A pair of lion dance teams slid dramatically through the crowd on their way to the stage. The lion dance troupe from MIT then performed the customary dance, and then added a unique signature to their performance...
...Bush knows, the best way to sell the cuts is to show "how they benefit children, families and workers," says a top Senate GOP aide. And so the wealthy - who would get the lion's share of tax relief under Bush's plan - were kept out of sight last week. Instead, Bush flew in middle-class "tax families," with little girls in velvet dresses and boys in penny loafers. Best prop for the cameras: a single-mom waitress with two kids making $32,000 a year. (She would get $1,500 back from the government, according to Bush.) Asked...
...made his film debut as Richard the Lionhearted in The Lion in the Winter, a role that garnered him an award nomination from the British Academy...
...year was 1967, and Peter O'Toole was preparing to co-star with Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. One night in London, after a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Toole knocked on the dressing-room door of the young actor playing the brother. "O'Toole was standing there, two sheets to the wind, as they say," recalls the actor. "He said, 'Would you like to be in a film...
Never mind that when Anthony Hopkins went to audition for O'Toole the next day, the now sober actor didn't have a clue why he was there. Hopkins got the part, though, and since his debut as the petulant young Richard the Lion-Hearted in The Lion in Winter, he has turned out nearly 100 finely tuned performances for screens both big and small, including the egotistical artist of Surviving Picasso; the tragically flawed Commander in Chief of Nixon; the withdrawn butler in The Remains...