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...left the Ritz, it proceeded normally, along with its entourage of paparazzi on motorbikes, until it reached a traffic light at the Place de la Concorde, a few blocks away. "Everybody stopped as usual at the red light," he said. "That's when the Mercedes took off with a roar before the light turned green, racing toward the embankment road...
...loved Hugh Sidey's article about the demise of his family's old newspaper printing press [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 4]. It brought back many fond memories. I was just 13 in 1944 when I got a job at the Alta Advocate in Dinuba, Calif. Every Thursday the rumble and roar of the news press came to life. She was a Country Campbell flatbed built in 1889. My usual chores were sweeping up and cleaning the job presses while Jake, the publisher, made up the front page. By 7 p.m. we lugged the forms to the bed of the press...
...starts with the sound of ancient bells. Not just any ancient bells, but the deep-throated, time-tinted clang and roar of a bianzhong, a fully intact set of 65 ceremonial bronze chimes entombed in China's Hubei province in 433 B.C. and dug up by amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...those good intentions can be tedious, of course. Roar moves along at a distractingly languorous pace and makes you wish for the zinginess of Hercules and Xena, shows meant to be nothing more than absurd fun. Like those series, Roar has plenty of high kicks and sword fights, but its scenes feel like bad attempts at re-creating Braveheart rather than very entertaining ancient-world episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is unlikely too that Hercules, played by the Fabio-coiffed Kevin Sorbo as a guy who appears to have lost his way back from spring break, would...
...beginning of Roar's pilot offers the hope that the show will maintain an ongoing subplot of a cursed romance between Conor and a rival's daughter. That promise vanishes quickly, unfortunately. It may have been just what Roar needed--a little touch of Melrose Place...