Word: duck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such stuff is the end of TV eras made. It has been nine months since Johnny Carson became America's most famous lame duck by announcing that he would retire from the Tonight show this year, at the end of his 30th season. Now, as the long-awaited finale draws near, a show that has always depended for its appeal on the offhand, the spontaneous and the ephemeral is acquiring an air of great moment. Hollywood stars are clamoring to be on with Johnny for one last time. Elizabeth Taylor appeared last month for the first time ever, thanking Johnny...
...hilarious movie parody dissolves into crazy beats while Chip FU gives hardcore lines a different flavor with lyrics such as "So don't try to test Chip FU you fantail shrimp/What are you, Bullwinkle or Rocky/Don't start no beef or broccoli/So give it up, you lost/Or you better duck sauce...
...never a real issue until she suddenly brought it up. They say Taylor not only wants to run for mayor but is also out for revenge against Wilson, her council colleague, for successfully pushing a term-limit ballot amendment last fall that has turned Taylor into a lame duck. Many residents, black and white, believe Taylor and her allies have badly misplaced New Orleans' priorities at a time when crime, housing and other ills are at a peak. "The city's falling apart, and they go after one of the few things that are still really working," complained float designer...
...within its first year, rent control, which has evolved into Cambridge's political litmus test, was repealed by a lame duck city council in a stormy public meeting. Days later, when the new council took office, the system was reenacted, and pro-rent control candidates managed to hold five of the council's nine seats throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, six of the councillors have been prorent control...
Amazing but true: the region surrounding this city in southern France, whose robust cuisine embraces foie gras, fatty duck, preserved goose, chewy red wines and Armagnac brandy, has the lowest rate of heart disease in the entire country. And the French as a nation, despite their substantial lunches and dinners (wine included), are only one-third as likely to die of heart attacks as Americans...