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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animated in the same way that King Kong II was, through a combination of mechanical and hydraulic gadgets. There were even artificial tendons in his face, and by pushing levers 45 feet away, an operator could make Puck do everything but scratch his stomach and laugh like Santa Claus. "He doesn't have a wide range of expressions," says Rambaldi, "because probably very great advances in civilization would gradually bring people to lose much of their emotional nature." Just one question: Will they still eat popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A City in the Sky | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...innovative treat is that four top-notch actor-musicians share the stage and comment on the action like a chorus of satyrs. Among other things, they appear in togas, snappy marching-band outfits, pajamas and in Santa Claus suits, playing and singing Hey There, Good Times. With that number, they bring down whatever remains of the house. The audience has already brought down the rest. T.E.Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unrequited Sin in Trenton | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...article on stars referred to celestial events around the time of Jesus' birth. However, there is a great deal of scholarship which indicates that Jesus was not an historical character. One might as well refer to stars at the birth of Jack Frost or Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...circuits and powered by a hearing-aid battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed with caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Odds & Trends | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...Garagiola, baseball's answer to Myron Cohen, described the Reds most aptly when he said, "They tie a string to every gift. You go after it and they pull it away from you." The boys from Cincinnati were no different last night, playing Santa Claus in double-knits for the first five innings...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Seeing Red(S) | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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