Word: touchings
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...Bush's few solid-gold allies. So the overnight stay in the former imperial capital of Kyoto-one of the few cities left where geishas, ancient temples and rickshaws abound-was a way for Bush to draft off of Koizumi's triumph. It was also an opportunity to touch down on friendly turf before plunging into the chaos of an international economic summit in Busan, South Korea, a honeymooners' paradise now on lockdown by police massing on every downtown corner with riot shields and prods that look like spears. ?Prime Minister Koizumi is one of my best friends...
Throughout both pieces, the talented chorus served as an indispensable engine for the production, providing a solid base of quality vocals and appropriate dramatic improvisations and suffusing the show with an entertaining liveliness. A trio of sprightly dancers also added a nice artistic touch...
...match coming only seven minutes into play. He beat the Quaker goalkeeper to the ball and lofted it up and into the bottom left of the net. This goal propelled Harvard to an early 1-0 lead and a lead that Penn would not be able to touch. Nicholas Tornaritis was not just the leading Crimson scorer in its game against Penn, but one of the leading scorers for this team in general this season. He started in 15 or more games each of his last three years with the Crimson. Throughout his four seasons he was also able...
...celluloid out of the projection booth for good. The old mechanism ran 3,600 m of delicate 35-mm film through a series of giant reels. Every screening added another layer of blips and blotches to the film. The new system plays the movie from the server at the touch of a button. And because the film is not on film - it's stored as a digital data file instead of being printed on strips of celluloid - the quality never degrades. Shown by a digital projector, every movie, whether it's a grainy, black-and-white indie drama...
...perpetrators are sending up and putting down. That may be so, but a glance at five kinds of comedy spanning 60 years proves that the truly funny is universal. A silent star can still make us laugh and gasp at his exertions. Teen foibles from the '80s can touch us today. All of which raises the creepy threat of a Rob Schneider retrospective at some film museum...