Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more interesting cultural developments of the '90s is America's fascination with drag queens. Stemming from the blond wig and impossibly long legs of ubiquitous model-cum-disco diva, Rupaul, and the popularity of last year's fantastic, flip-flop-dress-filled Australian import, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the popularity of drag now includes huge numbers of non-traditional (i.e. straight) fans...
...shameless rip-off of "Priscilla," the story of two drag queens and a transsexual on a road trip through the Australian outback in fantabulous togs, "To Wong Foo" is the story of three drag queens on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles in lackluster ensembles. In "Priscilla," they are on their way to put on a drag show at a hotel in the middle of nowhere; in To Wong Foo, they are going to compete in a national drag queen pageant in L.A. "Priscilla" had a matron, a misanthrope and a young upstart. What a shock...
...eggs and tomatoes at a French cultural center. In Chile 10,000 protesters formed a human chain in a Santiago park. Thousands took to the streets in Sydney and Tokyo, while demonstrators in Manila burned a French flag. Japan's Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura called the French action "crazy." Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating branded it "an act of stupidity." Chile and New Zealand recalled their ambassadors. The tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati broke off relations with Paris. Washington showed more restraint, expressing "regrets," while Bonn and London refrained from outright criticism...
...into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump.) A tiny shortwave radio occasionally brought in a scrap of intelligence. Somebody had reached the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open. An Australian-rules football team had lost...
...shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...