Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, just inside the door of the Church Street store is a large display of hand-painted wooden boxes in bright colors--a display absent from the Mass. Ave. store...
...Mainstage, the participants will enjoy a guaranteed grant of $5,000 to spend on sets, sound, publicity, props, costumes and miscellaneous expenses. In most other productions on campus, directors and producers can only hope that ticket sales from the show will cover their expenditures, concerns absent from the Mainstage...
...Hence Tintin's mysterious age. He's evidently not a grownup, but not quite a boy either. All the tell-tale signs of puberty, such as facial hair and acne, are strangely absent. His skin is as baby-smooth in "The Blue Lotus" (set in 1930s Shanghai) as it is in his final adventure, "Tintin and The Picaros" (set in 1970s Latin America). Forty years without a single zit or wrinkle! That's as amazing an ability as Superman's X-ray vision...
...falls to a computer-generated moose and squirrel. The movie, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, features De Niro as Fearless Leader, Alexander as Boris and Russo as Natasha; the critters will be added during editing. De Niro reports he had no difficulty shooting scenes with half the characters absent. "It's not hard unless you have a very emotional scene," he says. Which means we probably won't learn much about Bullwinkle's troubled childhood...
DIED. WENCESLAO MORENO, better known as Senor Wences, 103, ventriloquist who created impish dummies out of his thumb and forefinger; in New York City. As a schoolboy in Spain, Moreno began using his hand as a puppet to amuse himself while in detention for answering for absent friends during homeroom roll call. On the '50s and '60s variety shows of Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, among others, he delighted audiences with sweetly silly exchanges. The often cranky Pedro, a disembodied head in a box, usually answered Wences' inquiry as to whether he was "all right" with a casual...