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...could do that," Leach recalls. With her knowledge of kids, and with help from a father-in-law who owned a video-production facility, she joined with a friend, Kathy Parker, to develop Barney. He started out as a cuddly teddy bear but evolved ultimately into a snuggly dinosaur. Leach and Parker hawked the initial videos to preschools and slowly built a national following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuuuupendous! | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...watch it. Seeing the magic, her father called Leach's company, the Lyons Group, and they teamed up to produce 30 PBS episodes, which started airing last April. When PBS considered canceling the show last summer, parental howls saved it. Now 20 new episodes, which will introduce another dinosaur character, are scheduled for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuuuupendous! | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

Alpert says that his office has not attempted to control the squirrel population in any way. But if many students succeed in their persecution of the Yard's second-most common species, the Harvard squirrel may go the way of the dinosaur...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Are Squirrels a First-Year's Friend? Or Are They Only Glorified Rats? | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...half an hour onscreen, the Genie makes dozens of eyeblink metamorphoses: a Scotsman, a Scots dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senor Wences, Ed Sullivan, Groucho Marx, a French waiter, a turkey, the crows from Dumbo, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, a rabbit, a dinosaur, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aladdin's Magic | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...band's been big in the Boston music scene for about four years now, having started while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Often dubbed "Dinosaur Jr. Jr.," the band grew under the tutelage of J. Mascis, a fellow UMass alum and backbone of Dinosaur Jr. The bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Buffalo Tom: Moshing with the Middle-Aged Crowd | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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