Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irreverent music lover attends this sassy and unconventional La Boheme in a mood for sedition. That does not mean impatience with the soaring lyrical glories of Puccini's music?nobody boos a sunset. But Mimi, the consumptive Parisian seamstress, has been a dying duck since the opera's first performance in 1896, and her fog-witted lover Rodolfo, the poet, has moped melodiously for the same stretch. A certain amount of dust has gathered. Only the fustiest of traditionalists would grouch at the news that Joseph Papp's musical irregulars from the New York Shakespeare Festival have decided to give...
...Republican Party of this. They see the election as a clear mandate for the hard-line Reagan and for their more extreme goals. Nor will the right wing necessarily hesitate to attack the President if it considers him too weak, especially because he will be increasingly a lame duck. Nevertheless, he remains a hero to a majority of Americans, and his anti-Communist credentials are so strong that the country at large would have a hard time accepting the notion that he had gone soft...
...divides among waterfowl-conservation groups. Some of the paintings for sale fetch as much as $10,000. Some of the delicately carved decorative decoys commonly bring $3,000. "Hell," explained one craftsman, defending his costly wares, "it took me a week just to do the bill." He meant his duck's bill, not his price...
...next carver up, Jim Sprankle, offered no-nonsense instructions, going down deep into all the arcana of his craft. His listeners failed to notice the humor in his remark on concentrating on the head area of your duck. "As far as I'm concerned, that's the focal point. That's what draws you in. You don't look at someone's tail first, so to speak...
...restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just as madcap; his department invested 80% of the bank's lending portfolio in risky oil and gas ventures. Yet neither Patterson's antics nor his business bravura aroused much concern among officials of major banks, who bought...