Word: koala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aussie's have done it again. First, there was the cute koala bear in the Quantas commercial, then there was Breaker Morant. Then there was "G'day Mate." And now, add Malcolm to the growing list of charming, unique treats imported from Down Under...
Sound trucks blaring political slogans crept through packed city streets on Okinawa. Candidates wearing white sashes emblazoned with their names pressed the flesh of voters at subway stations in Hokkaido. Campaign workers garbed in koala bear costumes roamed a shopping center in Tokyo. Across Japan last week hundreds of politicians scrambled to win voters before the July 6 election. At issue in the balloting will be control of both chambers of the Japanese Diet. Also at stake will be the political future of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and his controversial drive to create a new era for postwar Japan...
...first, like Anthony Perkins getting ready to swab the bathroom floor at the Bates Motel, but his brilliant performance made manifest all the deadpan comedy and everyday eeriness of the music. At last, everything was clear. Besides, the lead singer ended up being as endearing as the Qantas koala...
...need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop...
...well-heeled audience standing on the lawn of a Bel Air mansion, is that he has to campaign apart from his wife Lee. "The good news for her is that she campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected, "I got to hold a koala bear," Hart sniggered, "I won't tell you what I got to hold: samples from a toxic-waste dump." Voters in California chuckled; many in New Jersey smoldered. The blunder undercut Hart's best pitch: that New Jersey epitomizes the future he envisions, a state successfully making...