The same battle cry was used by rebels in Libya last year as they inched toward the capital, Tripoli, seat of then-ruler Moammar Gadhafi.

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It is starting to have the same haunting effect as George Bush senior's famous cry of "read my lips, no new taxes", ahead of the 1988 US presidential election.

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Xanadu - based on the 1980 film flop of the same name starring Olivia Newton John - and Young Frankenstein beat A Catered Affair and Cry-Baby The Musical to take joint musical honours.

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