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Word: asteroids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS YEAR'S installment of America's oldest ongoing response to Kabuki featured the usual raft of pretty boys in leotards, tennis-ball halves and wigs, playing pretty girls with puns instead of names ("Jemima Fysmoke," "Cybil Service"), whose stock-in-trade is the Big Pun ("You made an asteroid out of yourself!"). Or, alternately, the Silly Joke ("Don't Be a Dope Head, Buy a Moped"). Or, alternately, the Cliche ("Let's Do It"); it's 2078, after all. As far as I could discern from the production notes, the main plot-line consists of a mad grab...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...discovery of Object-Kowal has raised speculations as to the possibility of an asteroid belt beyond Saturn, Charles Kowal, the object's discover, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Doubts 'Tenth Planet' Label | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

...Kowal, a research assistant in the department of astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, said it would be wrong to call the object an asteroid, because it is different from other known asteroids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Doubts 'Tenth Planet' Label | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Marsden said he tends to think that Object-Kowal is a type of asteroid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Doubts 'Tenth Planet' Label | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Hopefully, that is not hte case. After all, our lives are just as meaningful and exciting as any celebrity existence; it is all a matter of perspective. By the way, do you known what I heard yesterday? This giant asteroid is supposed to have landed in the yard, but the University police hid it in Dean Epps's office until they could get it to Washington for study. Then, three men in black coats walked into Lamont Library and demanded all he Government 40 readings...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Tabling Tabloids | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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