Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OHIO GANG: THE WORLD OF WARREN G. HARDING by Charles L. Mee Jr. Evans; 248 pages...
...poor nations of the Third World (Reagan favors increased loans and investments by private business; Trudeau and other summit participants want more government-to-government help). Trudeau's main message: there will be no "confrontation" at the summit. Translation by one of his aides: "No gang-up on the Americans...
...reason for amiability is that elections and other political changes have broken up the old gang that argued so vociferously at previous economic summits. Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain are the only veterans of these gatherings. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Ministers Zenko Suzuki of Japan and Giovanni Spadolini of Italy are as new to summitry as Reagan. Suzuki is something of an odd man out; unlike the others, he speaks not a word of English. Spadolini was confirmed as head of Italy's 41st postwar government...
...found enough for two books: Tatterhood and Other Tales (The Feminist Press; 1978) and her just published The Maid of the North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck up all the water: she tosses them some fish and the monsters have to release the stream water to eat them. Another heroine, a woodcutter...
...look at Norm Ferguson's roughs for Playful Pluto, in which he caused his pup to be caught in flypaper for an entire reel of helpless hilarity to see what three-dimensional plasticity could do to enhance the range and delicacy of animated humor. When the whole Disney gang got going on something like The Band Concert or Mickey's Service Station, the allegro pace of comedy bits could be staggering. That these shorts appeared just seven years after Mickey's debut gives some indication of the tempo of inventiveness at the studio...