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The title refers to a to the sound of a snappy piano clique that would give any high player. school “mean girls” a run for their “The White Stadium (1928)” money; you can guess what the B was thought to be lost until 2011 stands for. and was then reconstructed by the I found it invigorating to see International Olympic Committee actresses I had watched for decades using original title cards wherever advancing into their mature lives possible. The images in St. Moritz alongside me. But the wrinkles! For are not just of the athletes but of more than a year I’d been enjoying well-dressed spectators arriving by movies on small screens at home so train, scenes of villagers playing in 4 of 5 students would encourage to see those lovely faces magnified the snow, and enough lovely win- multiple times was a shock. 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