Word: donkey
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SHENYANG, China—The statue of Chairman Mao in Shenyang rises three or four stories to survey Zhongshan Square, without a doubt cutting a more imposing figure than any Mercedes-chauffeured communist official or donkey-cart-driving farmer in this provincial capital of 7 million. Clad in an overcoat, which probably still leaves him chilly during the northeastern China winters, Mao stretches forth one arm over the sledgehammer-swinging, automatic rifle-slinging soldiers, workers and peasants surging forth from his feet in sculpted struggle against the forces of the West, capitalism, imperialism and whatever else. He offers, in short...
...First, he pressed through a crowd of men to hand his ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket and Abu Amira jockeyed at another window for the second stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week. A few yards away, a man shoving to get to the clerk in his steamy booth threw a punch before others in the crowd held him back...
MOVIE Shrek "I thought it was very great. I loved the Eddie Murphy donkey...
...report on a region, but we found ourselves dissecting a relationship. There aren't many places you can go to see the First World and the Third World meet--in some cases, in the same city. You cross over from the U.S. side and see a donkey pull a garbage cart through the streets as you drive out to see the Mexican fiber-optics factories. It felt like a kind of time travel--we just skipped the 20th century as we drove across town...
...MOVIES I just saw "Shrek." I thought it was very great and I loved the Eddie Murphy donkey. I thought he was very funny. I really liked "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." I saw it a couple of weeks ago at Camp David. That's where we usually see movies. We've seen some here, [at the White House] of course, but we always see them on the weekend when we're at Camp David. I thought it was so beautiful. Even the martial arts part of it was like ballet...