Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Uganda's irrepressible General Idi Amin Dada, whose graveyard humor has frequently been directed at President Nixon, launched a "Bananas for Britain" campaign to help the British through their winter of discontent. Amin personally donated $1,400 and squeezed another $3,400 out of a bemused Kampala rally. Whitehall officials, who obviously had not yet lost their talent for repartee, said the Foreign Ministry had received no money yet. But, they added, they would know just what to do with it if it arrived: turn it over to Ugandan Asians in Britain as compensation for the losses they...
...imagined that I had been granted Kissingeresque powers to rearrange national sovereignties on the map of Asia." Aikman posed with the villagers for a high school-type photo and exited gracefully. In Uganda, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs momentarily forgot his manners when President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada admired his necktie. "I should have remembered," confesses Griggs, "that when a Moslem admires something of yours, you give it to him." Good-naturedly, Big Daddy, a former heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda, punched Griggs in the chest. Griggs, incidentally, did not give Big Daddy the necktie...
Born. To General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, about 48, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, about 22, newest of the four wives allowed to Amin by the Moslem religion: a daughter, her second child, his 14th; in Kampala...
...antiart, Duchamp's work became a lunatic cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism−anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted on glass, composed musical pieces by making a random choice of notes, and dropped pieces of string, then froze them to a board with a glue...
...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...