AZZAM Wig-Wam
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The largest motor yacht in the world was just launched by Lürssen, a German luxury boat builder. Its name is Azzam and it is 590 feet long.

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There are no immediate descriptions available of the interior, though we know it's in the hands of French interior designer Christophe Leoni, who's using a "turn of the century Empire style."

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What is a Penis Boat? They are defined by a number of criteria:

1. They are long and penis-shaped, usually with a very long covered bow section.

2. They have one or more V-8 engines with straight exhausts through the hull and are very, very loud.

3. They have loud graphics schemes or colors, and usually a name in 2-foot high letters across the side. The name should be something tough-sounding like "The Eliminator"

4. They have relatively small cockpits for their length, usually upholstered in gaudy colors. Below decks is a cramped cabin, usually decked out like a custom van from the 1970's.

Penis boats come in a number of sizes - from simple single-engine 28 footers all the way to triple engine 50-footers and beyond.

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Muldoon

One of New Zealand’s most memorable personalities was Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. Muldoon dominated public life in the 1970s and early 1980s in a way that few politicians before or since have managed. When we spoke with members of the public about the exhibition early in 2007, Muldoon was the politican who seemed to have left the most vivid impression, even among those who were very young at the time.

One of the factors contributing to Muldoon’s cultural survival is probably his ubiquity in the media. Not only was he one of the first politicians to make effective use of television (you can view the National Party’s notorious 1975 ‘Dancing Cossacks’ TV ad on nzhistory.net), but his distinctive features were eminently caricaturable. Every political cartoonist had their own Muldoon, and he was also impersonated on television (most memorably by David McPhail on the satirical shows A Week of It and McPhail and Gadsby).

We’ve found this great toby jug bearing the unforgettable Muldoon countenance!

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Cartoon treasures, 1980s

Politicians sometimes treasure the cartoons that feature them, even those that show them in a bad light. Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon usually hated Peter Bromhead’s cartoons — but this caricature appealed to him. He even hung it in his home.

Sir Robert Muldoon. By Peter Bromhead. Alexander Turnbull Library, B–126–018.