Word: birding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Constantin Brancusi completes abstract sculpture Bird in Space...
...achievements. It was not his program, after all--the Children's Television Workshop hired him. In fact, Henson hesitated to join the show, since he did not want to become stuck as a children's entertainer. Nonetheless, few would disagree that it was primarily Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Grover and the rest who made Sesame Street so captivating. Joan Ganz Cooney, who created the show, once remarked that the group involved with it had a collective genius but that Henson was the only individual genius. "He was our era's Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers...
Long before Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and Elmo were cultural icons with a generation of loyal followers, they had a mission...
Chall credits Cerf with Big Bird...
...fought him on the size of it until I saw it. The whole charm was the big size of the bird," she says...