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"Mittens, this is what John Muir would call 'a charming little poem of wilderness.'"

Sounds that various toys make when they are vacuumed up.

Tell me again how aloof and independent cats are.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

The Philip Marlow family

Harry S. Truman

"Of course I've been drinking!"

Relaxing in front of a fire.

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

Cats

"So who ordered the 'Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum on a dead mans chest'?"

Glasnost

A good leader should be able to conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations...

Gorbachev Changed the World

Old cold warriors home: 'By god, I'll tell you who was soft on communism. . .'

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

I think the best thing about this whole Russia stuff is the movies. Interesting hypothesis. Think about it: the best action movies we ever had were the cold war ones, like "Wargames," "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Day After," etc

"I should now like to make a few anti-Soviet remarks."

3 Bottle Banks - Clear, coloured and rum bottles.

'Don Francesco, scusi... But while we were burying Luigi, some joggers ran into us... So we had to bury five corpses altogether...'

'I never rule out any negotiating tool!'

'If it starts, notice the roar of power.'

Artist is drawing a mug instead of the models.

Ben Foden Brings Flair and Adventure to the Party

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

'A lot of successful politicians opposed the Vietnam war, Senator, but if you were actually a MEMBER of the Viet Cong....'

"Damn it, Flopsy, you've cost me another bust."

Welcome to the "Ask Sadie" radio hour. You're on, Cleveland. What's YOUR problem?! My deadbeat brother-in-law won't leave. What do I do? For six months, he's been sleeping on my couch, watching my tv, and drinking my Dr. Pepper. Excellent question. It reminds me of the time Stalin liberated Eastern Europe and then didn't leave for 44 years. You're going to need a massive arms race, a containment strategy, and Sylvester Stallone. Now he's using my toothbrush.

The shadow

'He's been very influenced by Tom and Jerry.'

SnowmanBig City

Trilby - 'I believe you, my boy!'

Dashiell Hammett

The state of dread induced by the threat of nuclear war during the Cold War

Deadlock In Moscow: The General Secretary Insists That Mrs. Gorbachev Write a Nice Thank-You Note to Mrs. Reagan.