Word: riotously
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...conflict has contributed to riotous clashes at school-board meetings whenever the sex-education curriculums come up for review. Last year, for example, when New York City developed a program designed to help combat a runaway rate of teenage pregnancy, religious groups presented a list of 56 objections. In middleclass San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the fray over sex-education reform grew so heated last spring that conservative opponents showed up at a school-board meeting dressed in Revolutionary War garb and bearing a cannon...
...fiction films and documentaries show, Herzog is also an adventurer with a mystic bent. He is both enrapt by this land's riotous beauty and bound to honor its secrets. When the airship finally flies, Dorrington says he is "high on helium," and in a symphony of pristine images and gorgeous choral music, The White Diamond achieves its own ecstasy. Here Herzog proves that films don't need to make things up. The world is full of miracles, if only you know where to look...
...Krakow's hot spots. More serious soir?es will be held in Temple Synagogue located in Miodowa Street, such as "Bridge to Peace," a concert by Dutch singer Shura Lipovsky, American singer-actor Theodore Bikel and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mostar Sinfonietta on June 27. Szeroka Street's riotous end-of-festival party, with surprise acts playing to an international crowd, starts on July 2 and carries on into the next morning. Kazimierz's past may have been bleak, but the return of its vibrant Jewish culture makes for a bright future...
...Krakow's hot spots. More serious soirées will be held in Temple Synagogue located in Miodowa Street, such as "Bridge to Peace," a concert by Dutch singer Shura Lipovsky, American singer-actor Theodore Bikel and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mostar Sinfonietta on June 27. Szeroka Street's riotous end-of-festival party, with surprise acts playing to an international crowd, starts on July 2 and carries on into the next morning. Kazimierz's past may have been bleak, but the return of its vibrant Jewish culture makes for a bright future...
...shapeless enough to accommodate nearly everything a writer wants to cram into it. Short stories allow little wasted motion. But Narayan, 78, turns out to be a perfectly accurate commentator on his own methods. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, while shorter than most novels, is a riotous mosaic of small details in which nothing, finally, seems irrelevant...