The party spirit was also high in Malaysia, where daredevil skydivers threw themselves off the world's tallest buildings near midnight in a group jump from the 452-meter ( 1, 483-foot ) Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
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Of Sicilian descent, Prima was born in New Orleans, where he soaked up the sounds of local street bands and the Mardi Gras party spirit at the same time he was hearing Italian opera in his home.
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"Everyone's in a real party spirit, " said Mary Passantino of Canyon Country, one of the 500 or so line dancers to mark the millennium to Dwight Yoakam's " Fast As You " in an old National Guard hanger.
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He would have made an admirable successor to Howley in the primacy, but such was the complexion of ecclesiastical politics that the elevation of the most impartial prelate of his day would have been resented as a piece of party spirit.
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Its object is what ought to be the object of all fourth of July orations, to inculcate the republican principles, and to cherish the patriotic spirit of'76, and not the party spirit of 1814, which brought our country to the verge of destruction ."
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In the report of the constituent session, Socor underlined that " the tasks of the Composers'Union are clear as regards the re-education of certain artists accustomed to bourgeois aestheticizing criteria " and asked for " the imposition of the Party spirit in music ".
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Dickens also describes " that injurious [ political ] Party Spirit " as " the Simoom of America, sickening and blighting everything of wholesome life within its reach . " ( p . 93 in the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd . edition, online from Project Gutenberg ).
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According to Tocqueville, democracy had some unfavorable consequences : the tyranny of the majority over thought, a preoccupation with material goods, and isolated individuals . " Democracy in America " predicted the violence of party spirit and the judgment of the wise subordinated to the prejudices of the ignorant.
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Peter Travers of " Rolling Stone " wrote that " " Take Me Home Tonight " has just enough heart and retro party spirit to hold the line before familiarity breeds contempt . " Critics have praised the leads and felt the film was heartwarming but was not very original or funny.
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Romeo and Juliet, taking Will's little tale and bringing it up to date-- sun-drenched California, Romeo popping an E or two to get him in the party spirit, a drag queen Mercurio teetering on his high heels-- also played locally, no doubt on the strength of pretty boy Leonard Di Caprio's teen appeal.