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:" The week of the Hong Kong tournament allows 24 Rugby-playing nations to intermingle for several days, and the huge cross-fertilisation of ideas can only be beneficial in the long term for the emerging nations.
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:" We worship ," replied Hengist, " our country gods, Saturn and Jupiter, and the other deities that govern the world, but especially Mercury, whom in our language we call Woden and to whom our ancestors consecrated the fourth day of the week, still called after his name Wodensday.
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:" A week later the same young men, with two other brothers and an uncle, captured in like manner another refugee wife of Sihayo, in the company of the young man with whom she had fled.
:" Bland continued to spend half of each week with his widowed mother and her paid companion, Maggie Doran, who also had a son by him, though Edith did not realize this until later that summer when Bland fell ill with smallpox.
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:" So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand …" added
* " Redneck Yard of the Week :" Each week, Foxworthy and Ayda Field present a Redneck Yard Of The Week, as submitted by home viewers to http :// www. redneckyard. com.
:" The Mavis Bramston Show was really interesting because you got to play something different every week.
:" It is a little depressing to watch Mr. Holbrooke endeavouring, week after week, to precipitate Music into the dismal cesspool of Chauvinism that is already full to overflowing.
:" Dorril spent a week reading highly classified documents about what is now known as ' Operation Clockwork Orange ' ( the plot by disaffected members of MI5 to discredit, among others, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson ).
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:" I remember a big South Sea islander saying that, in his view, the Hong Kong sevens were really the Olympic games of Rugby Union.
Prolific web reviewer James Berardinelli awarded the film three-and-one-half stars out of a possible four :" Like John Woo, Tsui Hark, and other directors who learned their craft in Hong Kong, Wong infuses his films with style and energy.
:" Firstly, all countries have laws to protect national security but, in Hong Kong, the Mainland's national laws on this subject do not apply.
Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of a possible four in the Chicago Sun-Times, and, amusingly, actually upgraded his rating for the thematically similar Infra-Man :" Mighty Peking Man is very funny, although a shade off the high mark of Infra-Man, which was made a year earlier, and is my favorite Hong Kong monster film.
Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of a possible four :" When I did a seminar at the Hawaii Film Festival several years ago, comparing the physical comedy of Chan and Buster Keaton, martial arts fans brought in their bootleg Hong Kong laser discs of this film and told me that I had to see the final 20-minute fight sequence.
In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film an A-grade and wrote :" A half dozen years after its Asian release, and over two decades after the original Drunken Master made Jackie Chan a star in Hong Kong, The Legend of Drunken Master may be the most kick-ass demonstration yet, for the majority of American moviegoers, of what the fuss is all about: To many aficionados ( who know the video as Drunken Master II ), this 1994 favorite, remastered and dubbed in " classic " bad Chinese-accented English, showcases Chan in his impish glory, dazzling in his ability to make serious, complicated fighting look like devil-may-care fun.
James Berardinelli was one of the less fervent reviewers :" The Legend of Drunken Master is pretty typical Hong Kong Chan fare – five superior action sequences with a lot of failed comedy and mindless drivel padding out the running length.
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:" For the sake of the record, I wish to state that I am not in negotiation with you or Mr. Cooper or anyone else to define Mr. Cooper's rights in respect of King Kong.
:" Universal thus owns only those rights in the King Kong name and character that RKO, Cooper, or DDL do not own.
:" and tournament
:" This Seven-a-Side international tournament is without a doubt the most spectacular, exotic, best organized Rugby competition of its kind in the world, and it has consistently produced the highest standard of Sevens Rugby seen anywhere.
:" The " Great Grapple " is an international cross martial arts tournament that is held only once a year.
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The tale is also alluded to by John Critchley Prince in lines 24 to 29 of his poem " North Wales :" " Thou hast not trod with pilgrim foot the ground / Where sleeps the canine martyr of distrust, / Poor Gelert, famed in song, as brave a hound / As ever guarded homestead, hut, or hall, / Or leapt exulting at the hunter ’ s call ; / As ever grateful man consigned to dust.
:" On April 24, Langmuir and I were running the machine and as usual were trying to push the electron gun and its associated pulse transformer to the limit.
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