Word: pans
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...have written this: always begin your movies with a bang. Or, as in Temple of Doom, a Chinese gong. This one is rung to signal the beginning of tonight's floor show at the Obi Wan Club in Shanghai, 1935. Presenting Miss Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and her pan-Asian chorus line in a delicious rendition of Cole Porter's Anything Goes-in Mandarin Chinese! At a nearby table, Professor Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is haggling for his life with a trio of Chinese gangsters: the diamond in his possession in return for a vial containing the antidote...
...membership of the organization's directing board attests to this "pan-Israeli" effort; it includes Knesset members from four different political parties in addition to General Davidi himself. The commitment continues after the program ends; each individual is encouraged to send 10 postcards to potential participants upon returning...
Hovering 1,000 ft. in the air, the first helicopter took gunfire. "It was like gravel raining on a pan," said Johnston. The pilot tried to maneuver away from the barrage, but could not. One bullet destroyed the helicopter radio. Another tore through the floor and exited through the roof, narrowly missing Chiles and clipping one of the rotor blades. Since the gunfire made an immediate landing impossible, the pilot carefully veered the crippled helicopter back to an army base. The second helicopter had also come under fire...
Standing in the wings, he was as nervous as cold water in a hot pan. Then Country-and-Western Veteran Roy Acuff introduced him as "a plain ole country boy from Illinois." And out onstage came Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 49, making his singing debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Block strummed his guitar and crooned a little bit of Crying My Heart Out over You and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. America's top farmer was on key but had a little trouble keeping time with the Opry band. "I wonder how that fellow...
...independent investment banker. Founded in Montgomery, Ala., in 1850 by three immigrant brothers from Bavaria, Lehman Brothers moved its main office to New York City after the Civil War and soon established itself as a major investment firm. It helped finance such struggling young companies as Sears, Roebuck and Pan American World Airways, and one of its partners, Herbert Lehman, served as Governor of New York State and in the U.S. Senate...