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...Tarzan is determined to "be the best ape ever." Frustrated that he can't growl exactly like his ape friends, he is advised by Kala to "just come up with your own sound." He does, and he likes it. The Tarzan yell is a shout of young maturity, of his interspecies uniqueness. But later, when he falls in love with Jane yet feels obliged to stay with his ape family to protect them, the yell carries a wrenching pathos. It is the primal scream of someone who doesn't know if he's man or monkey...
...death of the three Chinese journalists was a tragedy, but the protests that their government orchestrated seemed disproportionate. "Spontaneous demonstrators" were bused by the government to the embassy district, told where to march and given a selection of slogans to shout. As the protests got ugly, China squandered a lot of the sympathy it might have gained by a more measured response. "For every person on the Hill whose image is of a burned-out embassy in Belgrade," said a White House official, "there is at least one other person whose image is of a U.S. embassy under siege...
...with the U.S. This June will be the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the government may feel that nationalism is safer to promote than freedom. Students hurling rocks at the U.S. embassy in Beijing will not take time out to erect a statue of Liberty and shout pro-democracy slogans. Also, the government may hope to spur a guilt-ridden U.S. to grant concessions that it otherwise might not obtain; the Foreign Ministry has suggested that China's entry into the World Trade Organization would go a long way to ease the current tension...
Having just witnessed an entirely different version of Tommy (directed by Worth Gardner with musical direction by Scot Woolley), I want to scream and shout at the travesty I had to sit through for just under two hours. But I'm trying to be rational and analyze why I feel this way about what many would call a perfectly nice theater experience. Perhaps I didn't like this particular production because it was so different from the first national tour, which won my heart and soul five years ago. Perhaps I couldn't stand it because all the qualities that...
...about time for America to have something to shout about. After the drain of impeachment, Americans are ready for something serene and pristine. The beauty of the grass, the symmetry of the lines, the smell of a well-oiled mitt: these are the things we love about baseball...