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...would like to try something different, maybe get Jack Nicholson or Carol Burnett to speak here," he said...
...with media that any significant act by anyone, anywhere, good or bad, is seen, reported and gossiped about. The Soviets stumbled from behind the Iron Curtain to face the cameras when they were clobbered on the world's tubes after bombing Afghan villages, blasting the Korean airliner, murdering Major Nicholson in Germany and committing a few dozen other uncivilized acts. Not only have the Soviets stolen (naturally) pages from American campaign manuals, they have even produced their version of John Kennedy--Gorbachev, who displays a good-looking, clothes-conscious wife and plenty of middle-age "vigah...
Finally he discovered the bird under a couch "huffing and puffing and breathing hard." Since the conure's wings were clipped, his attempts at flying turned out to be "more of a falling glide," says Nicholson...
Such secrecy was a little harder for Nicholson and his roommates. Mert, the conure, often screeched at the top of his lungs. Even his owners got tired of hearing Mert's screams...
Ironically enough, Mert's name derived from the House administration. Since Mert was supposed to be a talking bird, Nicholson figured that if they taught him to say hello, he would be croaking out the name of Eliot House Master Alan M. Heimert by saying "Hi, Mert...