Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South China Sea, Deng Xiaoping is pursuing his own second revolution in which ideological distinctions between capitalism and socialism take second place to results. As Deng has said, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, it is a good cat as long as it catches mice." Capitalism is rapidly spreading from China's farms to its cities. Like Lima, Peking swarms with private vendors offering everything from soft drinks to socks. The hawkers cluster in 600 free markets in Peking and 61,000 throughout China. In the northeastern city of Shenyang, the government leases factories...
...Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty as the art of animation is at stake here--just some clever cartoonists having a holiday on mice...
Sheedy was a bright, well-organized and lucky child who danced with the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan when she was six. At twelve she wrote and, with the help of her mother, a literary agent, sold a children's book called She Was Nice to Mice. At 14 she began acting lessons and a few years later moved on her own to Los Angeles. After a short time in the minors (McDonald's and Pizza Hut commercials) she landed a role in a daytime TV special. She is anything but a gaga post-teen now, though she is counted...
...embrace of family, freedom and free enterprise, showed Buchanan's hand. He was able to overcome the objections of White House pragmatists who urged that the speech be more programmatic and less ideological. (Purists allied with Buchanan derisively refer to Regan's more moderate staffers as "Twinkies" and "the mice...
...Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave...