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...Miami Beach. Even as rent-a-Revere was spreading the tidings last April, the first Anglo invaders were pouring off a chartered jet at the Miami International Airport. There they were welcomed by a high school band playing Rule, Britannia, Mickey Mouse, Flipper the Dolphin, a bicycle-riding parrot and the mayor of Miami Beach. Hizzoner grabbed the first couple to clear customs and bestowed on them Moët et Chandon champagne, a limousine ride to the Nautilus Hotel and the keys to the city, which in recent years has been sadly depressed...
...want something a little more formal, consider Ferdinand's, the Blue Parrot, the Harvest, or the Hyatt...
What's that angry green parrot doing on top of that mound of cotton-candy hair? And who is that in such an enormous wedding dress, balancing the cake, complete with bride and groom, on top of her head? Isn't the answer obvious by now? She is, as she announces in the opening number of her new Broadway show, "the big noise from Winnetka." She does not, in fact, come from Winnetka, but Bette Midler is the biggest noise-and one of the biggest talents...
...went on: "The Russian tactics in Africa are like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
...sanctuaries were a danger or they were not. If it was worth cleaning them out, he did not understand all the pussyfooting about the American role or what we accomplished by attacking only one. Our task was to make Vietnamization succeed. He favored an attack on both Fishhook and Parrot's Beak, including American forces...