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The cohesion of the ensemble was very tight, the overall effect exciting and it served as the perfect curtain-raiser.
www.stuff.co.nz There will not be a curtain-raiser at the match, but gates open at 6pm.
www.stuff.co.nz Perhaps, had the ceremony been the curtain-raiser for two weeks of failure, it might have gone down as a grandiloquent folly.
www.dailymail.co.uk The minor final provides the curtain-raiser to the senior final.
en.wikipedia.org But with a curtain-raiser like this, who cares?
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