Word: custard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The first television show explicitly designed for the one- to two-year-old set, it centers on the comical activities of four fuzzy creatures who speak in baby talk, eat Tubby Custard ("Tubby Tustard!"), share "big hugs," and have TV antennas on their heads and TV screens on their stomachs that transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television. So what...
...shabby jellabas sip tea or puff on water pipes, while backgammon counters slap, slap in the background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player...
...Brussels for a meeting with the Belgian government, got nailed with a pie in the face. The culprits were a band of four or five guys, two of whom were caught. One was videotaping the event. Some suspect that Noel Godin, a Belgian who somehow makes money by tossing custard pies at the rich and famous, was involved. Get a computer, Noel...
...What Is Frightening? A: No Longer Senorita Alien. When alien infighting occurs in the cage of pain constructed by pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...
...Violence. Fat chance. In an attempt to compensate for Q&A above, Alien Resurrection dies on the way to being reborn and we have to see the placental remains: super space goop gore, custard again and a man picking and looking at a piece of his brain from his blown-out-like-JFK skull before dying. The thrill of Alien was in the mutual hunt: nothing happens, for good reason...