Word: ducking
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...seems primitive and, in its way, hilarious that the Americans and Chinese should be stuck at the equivalent of Bugs and Daffy's "Duck Season! Wabbit Season!" - a stalemated schoolyard argument. You will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...
...around guests are chowing down on pancakes filled with Peking duck, carved in front of our eyes by two Chinese chefs, or on rare lamb chops passed by circulating waiters. The bar flowed champagne and cocktails all night, pausing only briefly during the stage presentation...
...think I know when a damsel is in distress. I lean over and ask if she minds that she is being used as a model for next year's Christmas cards sent out by paparazzi. She shoots me a "what can I do?" smile. I sense that I cannot duck my destiny with gallantry. I utter the words that I've heard from a slew of celebrity handlers over the years. "Come on gentlemen... last two pictures. Miss Fonda is due on stage right...
...scatter them at sea. But a lot of baby boomers are demanding something more elaborate for themselves and their dearly departed. In Florida, retired golfers are having their cremated remains scattered on putting greens. Canuck's Sportsman's Memorials Inc., based in Des Moines, Iowa, packs the ashes of duck- and pheasant-hunting enthusiasts into shotgun shells. They are later fired into the air during a ceremony in the woods for family and friends. If you're an ocean lover, Eternal Reefs Inc. in Atlanta will place your ashes inside an artificial reef for $850 to $3,200. Celestis...
...then there was hope, in the form of more kabuki: the lame-duck Mori urging his ministers to tackle the banking system's $600 billion bad-loan problem, and finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa promising fiscal guarantees for a bailout scheme that many wonder whether the government can afford. But the task forces are meeting and ministers are huddling, and in Japan, that constitutes dramatic action. In the financial markets there was hope that Mori's puppetmasters in the beleaguered Liberal Democratic Party might just be moved to vigor in the cause of self-preservation...