Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roger Rabbit?, the story of Roger's search for the culprit who set him up for a murder rap. Even with Steven Spielberg producing it, the film is a major gamble. Its cost is rumored to be $38 million or more, which has inspired ominous comparisons with Howard the Duck, a notorious $35 million quacker made by Universal. Says a Hollywood insider: "I've seen a few minutes of Roger Rabbit and can tell you for sure that it's no Howard the Duck. It's unique and should be very successful. But when you're out that kind...
REAGAN may be a lame duck president, but he still wields an enormous ability to affect national opinion. His justification for not enforcing civil rights laws and for vetoing this newest piece of legislation has been that these laws are no longer necessary or effective. Some are convinced. Over and over again, Reagan's actions have demonstrated his belief that the market system should rule all--that people should be completely free to discriminate on any basis, for any purpose...
...lame-duck days of the Roman Empire, barbarian tribes frequently jostled one another as they trundled across the Eurasian landmass. Sometimes the stronger would displace the weaker, sometimes they would wage war among themselves, and occasionally there was a process of cooperation and mutual assimilation. And so it has been with the various factions that seek to control the turf of America's political parties. New tribes wander in and displace older ones, struggling every now and then to capture the soul of their party. Only rarely does a leader come along who can smother factional rivalries and give definition...
...that the only way the U.S. can remain a power in space in the face of a strong Soviet manned program and aggressive foreign commercial ventures is if NASA shares the costs -- and the rewards. The question now is whether a policy outlined by a lame-duck President will carry much weight with his successors...
While she is in the hospital, Laura said she watches television and movies on the VCR and plays video games. "I love the duck hunting game. You know the one where you have a gun and you shoot the ducks on the screen," she said. "If you miss, they come up and laugh...