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...with pingpong-ball eyes and a sonic boom of a voice known only as Cookie Monster (no middle initial). His appetite is so fierce that, given a choice between ten thousand dollars and a cookie, he opts immediately for the latter. There are other creatures on the show, like Bert and Erniehumanoids with cartoon hands, three fingers and a thumb. Bert, who has one frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There...
...singularly unfunny parody of the old Mr. Wizard show. The program, featuring a science teacher and a questioning kid, died so long ago that few viewers will get the joke. Most of the successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines of the men behind the animation, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (TIME, Oct. 19). Like the meatball ad, Gillette razor blade spots take the viewer into a studio taping session. The best ad has a director trying to induce Pitcher...
...Because Canada buys little but peanuts and cotton pants in return, the trade accounted for an $89 million balance of payments surplus. It could grow larger if the Chinese would begin buying Canadian newsprint and potash. Trudeau, who visited China in 1960 with Jacques Hébert and co-authored a book called Two Innocents in China, has advocated recognition since before his election in 1968. "It is a fact that there is a very large and populous country which is governed [from] Peking," he says. "To recognize that government does not mean that we approve of what...
Yaffe, who is Fall River coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union, won the Democratic primary with 58 per cent of the votes cast. He defeated another peace candidate, Dennis Smith, who is now campaigning enthusiastically for Yaffe ("Bert Yaffe has proposed more creative legislation in the last four months than Mrs. Heckler has in four years"). Yaffe carried Fall River, the district's largest and poorest city (the unemployment rate there is 8.5 per cent) and his home, with 75 per cent of the vote...
McCarthy was in town at the home of Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, to endorse Bert Yaffe, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Tenth District...