Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mandela's A.N.C. comrades were pleased by the exchange. Many were similarly disgruntled over the July meeting with Botha, an encounter of less import, considering that Botha was a lame duck. Some A.N.C. members seem to object to Mandela's taking a supreme role in the organization, officially headed by the ailing Oliver Tambo, 72. Still, none suggested that Mandela had compromised the A.N.C. goal of one-man, one-vote black majority rule, although younger militants are afraid that he has grown too soft and too accommodating. The group officially opposes talks with the government until several preconditions...
...minute film Doggie Adventure has never appeared in theaters and has an unusual point of view. Filmed mostly from a camera height of about 2 ft., it features scenes ranging from a car ride to a duck chase in the park. Its climactic moment is a stroll past a fire hydrant. You guessed it. Doggie Adventure (price: $14.95) is a videocassette designed to relieve canine boredom when a dog is left home alone. Says Harley Toberman, the film's creator: "I always knew that dogs watched TV, but usually there's nothing worthwhile for them to watch." Sometimes...
...People come in here and buy ducks, you know, quack, quack. I guess the turkey's pretty traditional. But you can cook duck in the same way or glaze it with orange or something," Huston says...
...that any animated film takes for granted. Problem is, real life gets in the way. Location shooting is at the whim of weather; special effects can look chintzy onscreen. And actors! They cost the moon, and their bodies aren't elastic enough to perform the comic contortions that Daffy Duck can give you with the wave of an animator's pen. So here's a tip for the '90s, Hollywood: junk the live-action movie. Just make cartoons...
...onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends in ambiguity: the reader never knows for sure whether the magician turns Fritz, the signature bull terrier that has appeared in all of Van Allsburg's subsequent books, into a duck...