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Word: beave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beaver however, was different from the extended televison family of Rustys, Juniors, Buds and Kittens: he seemed real. The world of Beaver, notes Mathers, "was seen through the eyes of a child." To the Beav, adults were an alien and slightly comical species whose rituals could be observed and mimicked. Other television children were passive; problems happened to them. Beaver actively courted trouble. He brought home live snakes, fell into a steaming billboard soup bowl, and cut his own hair so that he resembled a precursor of punkdom. Beaver was not streetwise, he was backyard-wise. He was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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