Word: dink
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MAE QUESTEL, 89, helium-toned actress who gave voice to the coyly sexy Betty Boop and the coarsely sexless Olive Oyl; in New York City. Over the years, Questel displayed vocal versatility as the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Winky Dink and Swee'Pea. Though she was featured in over 1,900 films, Questel once complained that she could walk down a New York City street without being recognized. In one of her last film roles, she played a caricature of a different sort, Woody Allen's mother in the movie New York Stories...
Sugrue, the police sergeant, said officers will only ticket people for serious offenses. "We're not jumping on people about giving hand signals or anything rinky dink," Sugrue said. "If someone is riding at breakneck speed along the kiosk [in Harvard Square], they will get a fine...
Hard as it is for some of us to admit, the Dink-Stover-at-Yale days are over. The ideal notion that a lad should just be grateful for the education he receives in exchange for a few hours of practice and the glory of Saturday afternoon is as dead as the dropkick. Who knows what the time of death was? It might have been when the shoe companies began dropping unmarked bills on coaches to wear their swooshes and stripes. It might have been when NBC decided to pay holier-than-thou Notre Dame $38 million for the exclusive...
...newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers; that dramas like NYPD Blue and ER are broadening the scope of narrative art; that, heretical as it may sound, the 1990s are television's real Golden Age, the 1950s and Philco TV Playhouse and Paddy Chayefsky and Winky Dink and You notwithstanding...