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...McIntyre, a Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster's loud "cock-a-doodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

Pearl herself is being pursued by a mysteriously persistent suitor (Marcello Mastroianni) -- a sleek Italian rooster fluttering a hysterical Jewish hen house. She's wary, attracted, distracted all at once. What's worse, she's supposed to be endearingly eccentric. So is everyone else in a film that some idiot in the quote ads is sure to call heartwarming. Mind-numbing is more like it. What this bunch needs is a team of psychiatric social workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Christmas Films Don't Sparkle | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...ammunition on that." ."It's in your book, on page 304." .Quayle was "talking to a welfare mother..." ."I've been there, Hal [or pal]." .Doesn't say, "I support a woman's right to choose." .Bush's taking credit for the Berlin Wall is like a "rooster taking credit for the sun rise" (his standard line). .Repeat after me, "I support the right for a woman to choose." .Limit congressional terms? "We're fixin' to limit one" right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEBATE SCORECARD | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

...rooster, many agree, is the traditional political establishment--white, male and wealthy, with a reputation for neglecting women's issues. Promising to deliver and pledging to bring change, women candidates are flooding Federal and state ballots this year. And many suggest that this year's election results could permanently alter the pecking order of government goals and programs...

Author: By Jonna M. Weiss, | Title: IN RECORD NUMBERS, WOMEN POLITICAL CANDIDATES LOOK TO THE FUTURE | 7/21/1992 | See Source »

...history and is worth more than $1 million. By 1922 nearly 700,000 moldboard plows were being built by all U.S. manufacturers. Then came the giant rubber-tire tractors that made it possible to link as many as 24 plow bottoms that turned the earth in great rooster tails as if it were water off the bow of a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Revolution on the Farm | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

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