Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter-century ago, they played a game of nuclear chicken, bringing the planet terrifyingly close to destruction. Last week in Moscow, many of the same men who were involved in the Cuban missile crisis met to discuss the confrontation. In a form of diplomatic glasnost, senior Americans, Soviets and Cubans for the first time traded candid observations on the drama that had the world holding its breath for 13 perilous days in October...
Event is an understatement. A carnival. A three-ring circus. A hoedown. A wild chicken farm. A dead fish emporium. A place not to take the kids. We ain't talking "Bambi Meets Mr. Rogers," folks...
...looks like a farm-implements salesman in his brown uniform, but make no mistake: Don Tyson, 58, is the king of America's poultry producers. His Springdale, Ark., company slaughters more than 15 million chickens a week, turning out 1,300 products ranging from fresh broilers to frozen nuggets. His desire to rule an even bigger roost has kept the feathers flying in the chicken industry since last October, when Tyson (1988 revenues: $2 billion) offered $894 million for the No. 3 producer, Memphis-based Holly Farms...
...Tennessee company clucked loudly at Tyson's advances and turned to another chicken producer interested in acquiring some of Holly Farms' juicy parts. Omaha-based ConAgra, the No. 2 grower, agreed on a so-called lockup arrangement in which the Nebraska firm can buy some of Holly Farms' operations if the marauding Tyson succeeds in taking over. ConAgra, which already controls 20% of the U.S. beef industry, 33% of the lamb market and nearly 10% of broiler production, would like to bring Holly Farms' Weaver frozen-chicken label into the same shed with its Armour, Banquet and Country Pride brands...
...autobiographical," says Almodovar, "but only in the essentials, not in individual anecdotes." In the subversive sitcom What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985), "I wanted to talk about my family, and about the horrendous family life of the barrios." Mom (Maura) sniffs glue, pops pills and burns the chicken. Dad sings German songs -- reason enough for her to kill the dull brute with a ham bone. By this time the viewer may feel like put-upon Mom or bashed-in Dad, so assiduously has Almodovar cataloged his atrocities. But the filmmaker had more cunning indiscretions in store...