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Word: aardvark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...busiest long-shnozzed, four-toothed, 3-ft. 2-in. creature with burnt-siena fur anywhere on earth. Of course, there aren't many talking life forms here that look like me. I am continually being mistaken for an anteater, a dwarf orangutan or an aardvark, which on Melmac we encountered only in crossword puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Mark Harvey and the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: October 10-16 | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then proceeded to nail Carson's guests, his audience, his tailoring and "a marmoset [that] peed endearingly on Johnny's head and an aardvark [that] shat in a sandbox." Nevertheless, Davies concluded his well-turned roast with an exemplary demonstration of fair play: "Against the run of all this evidence, I insist that Carson is worth having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Heerrre's Johnny: On the Spot | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...akin to being a member of the Moral Majority and seeing 101 Uses for a Dead Fetus. Bond, who has been a loving cat owner, although he is allergic to the animal, retorts, "Good comedy will always upset somebody. If I'd written 101 Uses for a Dead Aardvark, I bet no one would have complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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