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...dinner, we cannot remember the name of the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty. I tell a story about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and about their creator, the great animator Chuck Jones, who has a cartoon on his office wall, captioned "Agnostic Fleas," showing two fleas standing perplexedly in a wasteland filled with enormous stalks that turn out to be huge hairs; one flea says disconsolately to the other, "Sometimes I wonder if there really...
Which brings us to Richard Williams. In a house full of Jehovah's Witnesses, he puffs away on his cigarettes: pure Daddy Williams, an odd duck living in a world defined by Richard's rules. He said he would raise champs by keeping them off the junior circuit, and everyone said he was nuts. Well? He used to upset people by bragging on his girls; now he upsets them by sharing the stage. But look closely. The girls roll their eyes, but do they shove him aside...
...lame ducks and an ailing autocrat isn't much of a recipe for a peace deal - and the odds are lengthening against an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough at Tuesday's Camp David summit. Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, joined President Clinton in the lame duck corner Sunday when his coalition collapsed following the walkout of three of his partners, forcing him to delay his departure for Washington Monday to face down a crucial no-confidence motion in parliament by a mere seven votes. But even before two religious parties and one representing Russian immigrants bolted in protest against Barak...
...while Arafat and Barak will show up in Washington next week, neither will be in a mood to compromise at the urging of a lame duck American president. Which means the chances of Bill Clinton's presiding over a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement are increasingly remote. Instead, Arafat will probably declare his state sometime between the election and the inauguration, the Israelis will retaliate, and the next U.S. president will be called on to referee a new phase of their increasingly complex clash...
...shouldn't spend it all now." Just $500 billion of it, split down the middle, for a good cause: One bit of legacy for Clinton and one for this Republican Congress. Fair enough? Afterward, Republicans couldn't have acted less interested. To them, a compromise offer from a lame-duck President means just one thing: Hold out for more. Especially when George W. Bush is up 13 percent in the polls...