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...score of Friday night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always been the rare joy of American soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking for a holiday picnic under the oak tree in the backyard. And it was in this home-and-hearth spirit that the doughboys, G.I.s and grunts wrote back...
...school project. She wanted to know what war sounded like. He lowered his newspaper and said, "It sounded like hell." Scott said that was the end of the interview, but many years later she was deeply moved when her father, the town mechanic, died and a thousand people showed up for his funeral. His friends at the local American Legion Post performed the military rites. Their uniforms, she said, were mismatched suits, since in that town formal wardrobes were not a high priority. But she felt lucky to have been raised in their presence and to have shared their sense...
...ticket to the Cannes Film Festival. Entrance to the 23 films in competition for the Palme d'Or and the thousand others screened in this Cote d'Azur paradise is granted by press pass or market badge (for members of the industry). But lacking those, you can always try begging. One Frenchwoman, denied admission to a screening of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, sobbed at the barricades with such fervor that she could have earned a role in Les Miserables...
...dubbed, the "No-Fun League," has led the charge against player celebrations. Most recently in its annual meetings, the NFL banned multiplayer touchdown dances. Next season, if the St. Louis Rams want to perform their famed "Bob and Weave" after a score, each participant will be subject to several thousand dollars in fines...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...