Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice, absurd ring to it--unless, of course, you're a Republican. But in a city so unified on party lines, where Tip O'Neill seems to represent the personal interests of every man, woman and child, Republican governors don't have much choice but to go with the donkey...
...name Nintendo means "leave luck to heaven," but Sheff shows that the company's leaders have made their own luck, through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo...
...then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical setting the violins simulate police sirens; "My Country, "Tis of Thee" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" are cast in ironic dissonance; the "donkey" momement from Saint-Saens's "Carnival of the Animals" is quoted...
...starting to turn blue, and the bottle was half empty. Joyous Democrats were pirouetting before me, and the night was turning to the old kicking donkey. Swathes of the creatures had circulated out from their encampment in New England, and were chewing grass in the South and West. The Kennedy School's chart showed the Boy Bill well onto the second floor, while Bush had barely clambered up one step...
...brewing and running private transport. Secondhand clothes are imported from Europe and America and sold by the roadside. Packing cases are fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor is carried out in the open air and is called jua kali -- "hot sun." As multinational companies are driven away by government policies and demands for kickbacks, as state enterprises fail and lay off workers, the jua kali economy is booming...