Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mongrel New York, always a port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored...
...jailed for two days and released after the case attracted howling attention from the press. To poodle a little more excitement into the story, the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service sought reactions from, among others, Finance Minister Albert Gudmundsson. Readily admitting that he owned a fetching 13-year-old mongrel named Lucy, Gudmundsson unleashed a counterattack against the capital's law. If pooch came to shove, he barked, he would neither part with Lucy nor pay a fine that he considered silly and a violation of human rights. Protesting that a top official should not be above...
...Alan Norman (played by Mark Driscoll) and his dog for the missing Sir Francis Crewe (Paul Warner). The general of Pressan Ambo, the rural English town where the quest begins, explains the dog's disloyalty to all as if he were speaking of the play itself: "It's his mongrel blood, of course No loyalty, no proper feeling...
...Perhaps the ensemble nature of the play will help the 17 actors form a group capable of putting on four two-week shows in rapid and tiring succession. In any case, the play compares favorably with most Main stage shows and is an amusing, if still a slightly disoriented mongrel...
...ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers a series of bright anecdotes about two brothers who let themselves get talked into buying insurance and then manage to have a series of profitable accidents. As always, a poignant theme is introduced: the tale of a doomed, appealing mongrel born too soon for miracle drugs...