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It has fireworks, flaming torches, and gaily decorated floats on the central Okawa River.
Although the midday and sunset shows are impressive, the most popular exhibitions take place after dark, when the cliff divers plunge from this 130-foot cliff while holding flaming torches.
You travel by fast catamarans to the former home of John Huston, where you’ll be greeted by native drums and abundant tiki torches — there is no electricity here — then dine by candlelight at tables set along the secluded beach.
Visually and aurally, the attack scenes are built : Leaves rustle, torches go out in curly wisps of smoke, hoofbeats start softly and end up pounding your head.
(For rush to judgment, click .) And while she is literally correct that flags were waved and technically accurate that torches were not brandished, isn't there a deeper brandishing, a rich symbolic brandishing?