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Word: cartoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before its mutilation, the waist-high robotic figure was covered with toys and other objects, the ski-pole skeleton held together by brightly colored telephone wire. Its face was an old cartoon-character lunchbox, its torso a discarded radio, its hands giant ski gloves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

After returning to the States, Steiner wrote to 22 congressmen and leading newspapers about his findings in Nicaragua--over and above the group's letter--and criticized current U.S. policy. Along with the letter he sent a manual that he obtained in Nicaragua. The book let presented in cartoon form instructions on how to destroy farms and burn books, among other acts of sabotage. According to Steiner, sources in Nicaragua said the manual could be traced...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Harvard and Nicaragua | 9/26/1984 | See Source »

...company. He has introduced benefits like subsidized housing, and even composed a company song. Now he is working on marketing approaches that have included adding new colors and giving Haiyan shuts their first brand names: Tangren (Tang Dynasty Man), Shuangyan (Double Swallow) and Sanmao (a character in a popular cartoon strip). Says Bu: "When I die, I want no wreaths, just the logos of these shirt brands placed on my box of ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perfect Fit | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...already sold more than 11 million copies in its Genus, Sports, Silver Screen and new Baby Boomer editions, bringing in $400 million for Selchow & Righter, which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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