After the meal, Nancy recruited pianist Van Cliburn to sing a rendition of " Moscow Nights " for the Soviet delegation, to which Mikhail and Raisa broke out into song.

Nights into Dreams ... ( trademarked NiGHTS into DREAMS ...), is a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system.

That night, a nightmare replays the events, and Elliot runs blindly into the world of Nightopia, where he discovers the imprisoned Nights.

During the boss battle, he brings Nights, Elliot and Claris into different locations.

Nights into Dreams ... is split into seven levels or " Dreams ", each divided further into four " Mares " and a boss battle.

It is possible to complete some of the levels ' goals by wandering around the landscape of Nightopia as Claris or Elliot ( pursued by an egg-shaped alarm clock which will wake up the child and end the level if it catches the player ), but the majority of the gameplay centers on Nights ' flying sequences, triggered by walking into the Ideya palace near the start of each level and merging with the imprisoned acrobat.

The player has only a limited period available before Nights falls to the ground and turns back into Claris or Elliot, and each collision with an enemy subtracts five seconds from the time remaining.

The optional 3D controller that came packaged with Nights into Dreams .... ( US / EU version shown ; the Japanese pad was white.

At the time of its release, Nights into Dreams was the top-selling game for the Saturn, and was the 21st highest selling game in Japan for the year 1996.

A high definition version of Nights into Dreams has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam, and will be released for PlayStation Network on October 2, 2012, and for Xbox Live Arcade on October 5, 2012.

A minigame version of Nights into Dreams ... is playable utilizing the Nintendo GameCube-to-Game Boy Advance connectivity with Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

Following a successful fan campaign by nightsintodreams. com, Nights was integrated into Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and Nights and Reala appear as playable characters in Sega Superstars Tennis.

Archie Comics adapted Nights into Dreams ... into a three-issue comic book miniseries to test whether or not a Nights comic would sell well in North America.

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An expanded version of the A-life system was included in Nights: Journey of Dreams.

Several versions of the Nights theme song " Dreams Dreams " appear throughout the games in the series.

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The launch of the Sega Saturn, and the cancellation of the beleaguered Sonic Xtreme title saw Sonic Team focus on other titles, including Nights Into Dreams and Burning Rangers.

Nights: Journey of Dreams, the sequel to Sega Saturn title Nights Into Dreams was released for the Wii in 2007.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Nights of Cabiria was adapted as the Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the movie Sweet Charity ( 1969 ) by Bob Fosse starring Shirley MacLaine.

In the 1970s, a harp was common in popular music, and can be heard in such hits as Cher's " Dark Lady ", the intro of " Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves ", and " Boogie Nights " by Heatwave.

One Thousand and One Nights was the first erotic animated feature film, and at 130 minutes, it remains one of the longest animated films.

In a tradition from the Arabian Nights, a collection of myths and folk tales, Muhammad was said to have warned his followers against staring at youth because of their beauty: " Be careful, do not gaze at beardless youth, for they have eyes more tempting than the houris.

Sessions with Davis and Evans in 1962 resulted in the album Quiet Nights, a short collection of bossa novas that was released against the wishes of both artists: Evans stated it was only half an album, and blamed the record company ; Davis blamed producer Teo Macero, whom he didn't speak to for more than two years.

Nights was developed by Sonic Team, with Yuji Naka as producer and lead programmer, and Naoto Ōshima as the character designer and director.

Reala was responsible for Nights ' imprisonment in the Ideya Palace.

However this line was not translated to English upon release, therefore it was thought he said, " There is no Nights!

A Nights handheld electronic game was released by Tiger Electronics, and a port of it was later released for Tiger's short lived R-Zone console.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Lovecraft was obsessed with the Arabian Nights and had no doubt read the Fitzgerald translation-the couplet follows Fitzgerald's metre and rhyme pattern for the first half of a Khayyam quatrain.

The Nights, however, improved on the Panchatantra in several ways, particularly in the way a story is introduced.

" In the Nights, this didactic framework is the least common way of introducing the story, but instead a story is most commonly introduced through subtle means, particularly as an answer to questions raised in a previous tale.

EMP introduced a travelling collection exhibit in 2002 entitled Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights.

Starlin became the writer of Batman and one of his first storylines for the title was " Ten Nights of The Beast " in issues # 417-420 ( March-June 1988 ) which introduced the KGBeast.

One of their first storylines for the title was " Ten Nights of The Beast " in issues # 417-420 ( March-June 1988 ) which introduced the KGBeast.

Says New York Times critic Ben Brantley, “ I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say as if I were a 5-year-old at bedtime being introduced to ‘ The Arabian Nights .’”

In early 2009, the station introduced Nights with Alice Cooper, airing from 9pm to 2am on Saturday nights.

The device of the Arabian Nights is introduced by the wise men of the court, who in turn relate stories to dissuade the king from over-hasty punishment, each story being answered by the queen, who desires instant action to be taken.

During the driver introductions in 2005, Ricky Bobby and other characters were introduced in order to shoot scenes for the movie Talladega Nights.