Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House in the wake of his decisive victory in West Germany's March 6 national elections. Before discussing affairs of state, the two leaders engaged in amiable small talk about such things as the heavy rains in California and the recent visit to the U.S. of Queen Elizabeth II. But the Chancellor was also the bearer of a serious message to the President. Kohl's friendly advice: the U.S. and its West European allies may once again be on a collision course over how to deal with the Soviets...
...second problem facing hatters is that, except in a metaphysical sense, the hat is far less necessary than it once was. Men confront the elements only briefly, as they walk through the parking lot. So hats and hatters live at the mercy of fashion, the whimsical Red Queen. ("Off with their hats...
Cannabis was introduced into western medicine by a toxicologist and analytic chemist who confirmed that cannabis is non-poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders...
...leaders are prepared to close down the hospital in the name of equality, protesting that the private patients should not receive better food than the public ones. This sincere egalitarian critique is immediately compromised, however, when management allows the three union leaders to attend the catered reception for the Queen...
...royal family itself comes under a scathingly iconoclastic attack that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being...