Word: parroted
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...winding road but, after a 16-year battle, the FBI released some of its files on John Lennon to University of California at Irvine professor Jonathan Wiener. The files include the incendiary revelations that Lennon met with antiwar activists, did nothing illegal and knew someone who had a parrot that said, "Right...
...Gustave Flaubert's story A Simple Heart, an old French woman pines for a beloved nephew, a sailor who has disappeared in Cuba. Later she acquires a parrot. Because it comes from the Americas, it reminds her of him. When the parrot dies, she has it stuffed and set in her room among her items of religious veneration. On her deathbed, she has a vision of heaven. The clouds part to reveal an enormous parrot...
...really have come a long way from the "Just Say No" campaign. And for all the fun we would like to make of Nancy Reagan as a parrot-headed teetotaler, at least her husband wasn't hanging with drug smugglers at Miami fundraisers. Whether Gore knew of Cabrera's nefarious background, it is clear that he should have. If he is to have any shot at capturing the White House in 2000, he had better make it his business to clean up campaign finance legislation so that candidates don't have to consort with the likes of scummy Cabrera...
...voting majorities in two states, McCaffrey's take-prisoners approach to the marijuana initiatives--which he called a "tremendous tragedy" in Rolling Stone--reflects a hypocritical moralism of Reaganesque proportions. Similar to the First Lady of the '80s, who repeated her "Just Say No" mantra like a mentally disturbed parrot, McCaffrey has been pushing no-tolerance policy on drug use. The legitimation? As McCaffrey made clear in his speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey empathizes with sixth graders...
TONY SILVA Renowned parrot advocate gets almost seven years and $100,000 fine for bird smuggling...