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...flaring. In cafes and restaurants throughout this clean, orderly city, known for its per capita wealth and celebrity residents, vociferous smokers are shrieking that the new ordinance is fascist, Communist and tyrannical. "It's the People's Republic of Beverly Hills," fumes Irene Robbins, a bookkeeper for the Mandarin, a Chinese restaurant one block from Rodeo Drive. "The smog is ten times worse than anything you're going to breathe sitting through dinner with a smoker," insists Ronnie Fondell, puffing away at an outdoor table at Caffe Roma, a lively bistro where sleek Europeans come to meet and gawk...
Hugh Lamprey, of the World Wildlife Fund, flies in to Merz's sanctuary that morning to ask her to accept another baby rhino, which was just orphaned by poachers in the Masai Mara. Lamprey is a mandarin who urbanely calls down apocalypse in a voice that sounds the way the finest, oldest brandy tastes. The visitor privately bestows a title upon him: the Duke of Extinction...
...final years Macmillan concluded that Thatcherism was no laughing matter. From 1984 on, the Tory mandarin made several speeches critical of Thatcher's brand of conservatism. Her program of privatization was the political equivalent of selling off the family silver, Macmillan said, and her confrontational style was inappropriate at a time when Britain needed a "wartime spirit of national unity...
...Mandarin their names will be pronounced "Mi-lao-shu" and "Tang-lao-ya," but the saucer ears and orange bill will show them unmistakably to be the popular Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Beginning this week, at 6:30 every Sunday evening, the 30-minute "Mickey and Donald" animated cartoon show will be broadcast on China Central Television Network, dubbed in Mandarin. In Peking last week, Disney officials announced that the company would provide the Chinese network with 104 episodes over the next two years. Disney will give the network the show in exchange for selling two minutes...
...Something fruity and fizzy, with only a playful amount of kick? The alcoholic-beverage industry has plenty of new suggestions: a picnic cooler full of concoctions freshly invented for the moderate but merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...