Thando, a movie-star beautiful 19-year-old in a short skirt and long braids, winced at the idea that Americans would eat nondairy ice cream.

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"F Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside Saint-Raphael, " Luhrmann said in a statement.

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Instead of seeing, primarily, short stature, I saw that one was exceptionally beautiful, that one was unusually short even for a dwarf, that one laughed uproariously and often, that one had an especially intelligent face and so I began to recognize how generically I had responded to little people until then.

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Folks, the hour is late and the time is short, but on this beautiful day, we can still make a difference in this election.

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