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...studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character based on Mengers will soon appear in a new film called The Last of Sheila. Director Herb Ross describes the character...
Even without new reforms, suggested Rollings, Congress already has the capacity to do all these things. "There is no education in the second kick of a mule," he said. "All we need is to have the House set the limit, and the Senate will follow that discipline, and then we can call the President into line. I have seen that power exercised by the House. I have seen it exercised within the Senate. In the words of Walt Kelly's Pogo, 'We met the enemy...
...said Mr. Hannegan. 'He is the contrariest Missouri mule I have ever dealt with...
Whittled at, mocked, its history rewritten, the American West has taken a battering in recent years. The myth of the 19th century frontier-brave mule skinners and noble cavalrymen bringing civilization across the Great Plains-is dying out like the buffalo. This discovery, leaving a painful hole in America's stock of self-images, helps explain the recent surge of interest in 19th century frontier art. The latest evidence of it is a delightful show called "The American West," which drew crowds to the Los Angeles County Museum through the spring and will open June...
...public schools and for this reason--and "for religion"--he sends them to one of the new white private schools. Freedom of choice--he just can't understand why that isn't enough. You can't change people's hearts by laws: "You can't lead a mule to water, but boy you shore can't make that rascal drink...