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...tone of the opening cere monies is going to be majesty, in spiration and emotion," Producer Wolper had said. "But the key is going to be emotion." To that end, as all but the Sherpas know by now, thousands of church bells were rung throughout the city for the first four minutes, followed by those trumpeters, that orchestra, choir and those pianos, all while the word WELCOME was being written across the sky. That, you saw. This...
...Griffith could 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...
...Brink's case is just one of several recent prosecutions that have rung up staggering costs. The present state trial and the one last year involving three other Brink's defendants together are likely to empty the public coffers of an extra $7 million to $10 million, rendering it the costliest state prosecution in the history of the U.S. The figure makes the two trials of California Mass Murderer Juan Corona ($4.6 million) and the "Hillside Stranglings" case of Angelo Buono ($1.6 million) seem like bargains. The Wayne Williams trial in Atlanta and the related police investigation into...
...sold 400 Dallas Cowboys [asking price $62 million], but their personality and everything has already been established. I don't get off on that. I get off on building things from the ground up." At his Investment Mortgage International offices in San Francisco, a large Chinese gong is rung whenever a million-dollar deal...
...life just as it took time for white immigrant groups to make the adjustment. But unfortunately, Blacks encountered even more difficulty than normally expected not just because of racism, but also because of resent changes in the job market which reduced the demand for unskilled labor, removing that crucial rung which white immigrant groups used to escape poverty much earlier in American history...