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...neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly...
...this will be a full-fledged set, a "Rock-'n'-Roll Christmas Concert." Cornelia even has a crib sheet written out in pencil and propped up near the microphone in case she forgets how to sing her rock rendition of Frosty the Snowman: "Thumpety thump-thump, thum-pety thump-thump, there goes Frosty...
...large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi, a Harvard alumnus, would thump on the piano whenever the Fiihrer was in a frisky mood. After the war, whenever Putzi was asked what Hitler was like, he never failed to marvel how that man could whistle...
...Wall Street-Ole!" omits the fact that numbers can be manipulated to represent success or failure. I am not impressed with our economic gurus. They took forever to admit that our country had financial problems, and now, with the slightest "red flag waving," they thump themselves proudly on how all will be well...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib and leaders of Lebanon's warring factions sought desperately to concoct a truce, the roar of tanks and the thump of artillery fire threatened to make a mockery of their efforts. The 60,000-strong Israeli force, still trying to consolidate its control over southern Lebanon, advanced to the outskirts of Beirut. There the Israelis linked up with Christian Phalangist allies to impose a stranglehold over 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers trapped inside the western part of the city...