Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked me what a "television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...
...because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines between reality and cartoon reality and cartoon imagination...
...sodas in an afternoon and evening. He claimed they were half strength. He never lost control, just looked stunned. He quit cold turkey in the White House, switching to Fresca and root beer. For whatever reason, his presidency went downhill thereafter. White House abstinence was tried by Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter. Results were dismal...
...Harvard and Yale always have good times," said Lt. Calvin Kantor of the Cambridge Police Department. "The number of problems we're expecting is no more than usual on a Saturday night in the Harvard Square area...
After marching his team downfield with a combination of quick passes and handoffs to All-Ivy running back Calvin Hill, who later played for the Dallas Cowboys, Dowling scampered in from the Harvard two-yd. line to open the scoring. Yale's Bob Bayless converted the extra point to make...