Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is best known for flag-waving blockbusters like Pearl Harbor and Top Gun.
Their latest grand idea to create Franco-German industrial champions has already been mocked as flag-waving interventionism.
Less compelling is his hint that a day could be set aside for flag-waving.
Now analysts have started to lead the cheers, but their flag-waving does not hide some fundamental problems.
Overall, 10 concerts will go out on BBC One and BBC Two, including the legendary flag-waving last night.
In Bromley, south-east London, she and the Duke of Edinburgh were also greeted by 6, 000 flag-waving schoolchildren lining the streets.
But the Canadian defence held out and referee David McHugh's final whistle sent the crowd of 5, 172 into a flag-waving frenzy.
Chinese leaders might be tempted to encourage some flag-waving and foreigner-bashing as a way of distracting the public from domestic problems.
Create London's Hadrian Garrard said it would be a "counterpart to the big, flashy, flag-waving expensive ticket offers that we've seen previously".
President Kim returned home to a hero's welcome last Thursday, greeted by throngs of flag-waving well-wishers and a country brimming with hope.
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The scene was much like a rock concert, with the foot-stomping, flag-waving crowd dancing and bouncing beach balls as they awaited Obama's arrival.
Vietnam may not look like a totalitarian state--no huge pictures of a great leader, no masses of flag-waving youth, no ostentatious military parades.
Crowds of flag-waving Cubans lined the street on which Benedict's motorcade traveled, as Cuban state television captured both ground and aerial footage of the trip.
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Walking to the site, thousands of face-painted, flag-waving, colorfully-dressed sports fans are met by an army of purple and red-clad volunteers dancing, joking and welcoming them.
Malfunctioning speakers made it nearly impossible for the flag-waving fans stuck in the overflow section near the Washington Monument to hear what the president was saying.
Over the weekend of May 17th-18th, a group of naval and congressional leaders flew in from Manila to indulge in some more flag-waving, further provoking Chinese ire.
Among them is Tony Banks, the sports minister, who got into trouble this week by calling for an end to anthems and flag-waving at international sports events.
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The ceremony followed a 90-minute open-topped parade from Mansion House during which the two buses crawled through thousands of flag-waving fans as crowds built up in a sun-drenched Trafalgar Square.
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On Sunday, flag-waving Turks organized small street demonstrations around the country, as news of Turkish casualties trickled out from the border town of Daglica, where the fighting raged throughout the day.
News of Mr Chavez's resignation caused hundreds of flag-waving and whistle-blowing Venezuelans to surround the city's air force base, La Carlota, in the hope of seeing Mr Chavez' departure from the country.
Bush laid out an agenda for his second term on Wednesday after declaring victory in a speech to jubilant, flag-waving supporters at the Ronald Reagan Building, three blocks from the White House.
It held big, flag-waving rallies one attracted several hundred thousand people and told them that the free-market-minded Socialists would hand Hungary over to big business and (this for the farmers) let foreigners buy their land.
The extraordinary scenes in Cairo tonight - with the streets, avenues, and bridges jammed with hooting cars and excited flag-waving people - are a sign of the relief and pride which the crowds now feel.
After their athletes topped the medals table with 14 golds at the winter Olympic games, some 100, 000 flag-waving locals took to the streets of Vancouver and the nearby ski resort of Whistler, deliriously singing the national anthem.
Members of the three armed services, military bands and huge crowds of flag-waving well-wishers lined the route as the royals made their way from a reception in the City of London to a formal lunch at Westminster Hall.
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These days, the flag-waving crowds who flock around the traveling judge include activists from the secular Pakistan People's Party, from the PML-N (the party of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister ousted by Musharraf's coup) and from Pakistan's religious parties.
The 76-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who was elected Wednesday as the first-ever Latin American pontiff, was feted by thousands of chanting and flag-waving Argentines gathered outside the cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires.
To flatter him, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.
Where were the Italian-American athletes waving the Italian flag, or the Irish-Americans waving the Irish flag?
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