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Oswald (Noggin, Daily, 5 P.M. E.T.) SpongeBob and Dora may be more popular, but this unassuming octopus and his pals offer a treat for preschoolers (and their parents) ready to turn the volume down a notch. The show stands out from its brasher peers with its dreamlike look and sound: pastel art, a lilting sound track and a cast that includes a daisy, a snowman and Weenie, a dog shaped like a frank-furter (complete with...
Nicaraguan historian and former Sandinista leader Dora MarÃa Téllez declined a visiting professorship this spring at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) after the U.S. State Department denied her a visa for her alleged role in “terrorist activities...
Several of the toys expected to sell well this season are, in fact, those that incorporate video gaming and DVD technologies. Mattel's Fisher-Price introduced a game system called InteracTV this year, featuring DVDs with characters like Dora the Explorer; children as young as 3 interact with the videos via a push-button controller. VTech has a new video-game platform aimed at kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern...
Alan’s father Frank (Robert A. O’Donnell ’05) is an atheistic printer who forbids his son to watch TV; his mother Dora (Jen H. Rugani ’07) is an indulgent and deeply religious former schoolteacher. The actors and director avoid the temptation of giving Alan too tempestuous of a home life; despite their fights, Frank and Dora are a charismatic couple who love both each other and their son. When Frank begins to laugh at himself after overreacting to a man who has given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride...
...recurring nightmare of high-minded modern parents of daughters. You ask your relatives to lay off the pink pinafores at the baby shower. You give your daughter Legos and soccer balls, not Barbies. You encourage her to play fire fighter and immerse her in Dora the Explorer videos. Then one Halloween rolls around, and your empowered, self-confident budding Marie Curie tells you that she wants to be...a princess...