Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taunting his challengers by playing a masterly game of political chicken. Last week the mayor filed a huge stack of petitions qualifying him for a spot on the Democratic primary ballot. Should only one Democratic contender square off against him, reducing his chances of winning, the mayor may duck the party contest and jump straight into a three- way general election as a black independent running against a white Democrat and a white Republican. Washington clearly relishes forcing his opponents to play a guessing game. "I am getting a tremendous amount of pleasure out of watching the opposition squirm...
...Every toy and tale throws a long shadow," says Film Animator Chuck Jones. "I could never have done some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons -- and kids couldn't have responded to them -- without a knowledge of knights and witches and giants. Every popular figure, from Daffy Duck to the Cabbage Patch Kids, has ancestors in the old country...
Commentators began to speculate on whether Reagan was a lame duck or a "dead duck." The question echoed through the press: Will Reagan manage to preserve his power as a lame duck President against a Democratic Congress...
Though North once cracked that the Ayatullah Khomeini was "an old man who watches Donald Duck movies," he prided himself on his ability to deal with revolutionaries, saying he could talk their language. He apparently also spoke the language of the President, who last week described him to TIME as "an American hero." North claimed to be in that select company of White House aides who could call the President directly...
...Personal Cookbook (Atheneum; $21.95). In a book well suited to the relatively inexperienced cook, he includes such simple, solid fare as hamburgers, braised shoulder of lamb, German vegetable beef soup and French crullers. He gives meat loaf some style by way of jalapeno peppers, tenderizes and flavors broiled duck with a ginger-and-wine-vinegar marinade and imparts a herbaceous Provence fragrance to the lowly blowfish. Clams in black bean sauce, beef stew in a pumpkin, and mousse of sea scallops are among the showier offerings. Seafood cookery and baking are his specialties; the first is the feature...