Word: banana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mess of illegal Iranian immigrants selling phony telephone cards and cocaine. The statue of Takamori Saigo, a Meiji-era samurai, is surrounded by junkies seeking out teriyaki (heroin) or shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). Indeed, when Choco Bon- Bon, star of such Japanese porn classics as Tales of a Hard Banana, needs a fix, he goes shopping in Ueno and then goes home to the Hotel Queen DeGaulle to get high...
...stand. There's that guy dressed up as a dildo in the corner, although he himself doesn't look like he could do that much, if you know what we mean. Then there's that woman trying to balance a bowl of fruit on her head while singing "Chiquita Banana" to a crowd of onlookers. Oh, oops, that's not a Harvard student. It's Carmen Miranda come back from the dead...
...Fanny, Mary (Rachel Siegel), and Alexandra (Jessie Cohen) near our century they encounter the detritus of the '50s--egg beaters, "I Like lke" buttons, phonograph records, a big inflated banana...
...doesn't have enough trouble on its hands, the Clinton Administration has to decide soon whether to join with Chiquita in opposing the banana quotas in defense of open trade and a Europe free for bananas. But this begs a tough question: If we're for free bananas, what about free peanuts? Currently we've got a quota on those to protect small peanut farmers and ex-Presidents...
...MONEY: Banana Wars...