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Word: elephantitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Disney land was always a world so rich and rigid that it was ripe for satire. In 1954 Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book burlesqued the Disney cartoon world, with its talking animals wearing three-fingered gloves, its ducks in sailor suits but no pants, and a mouse named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

One of the more unusual things Michael has done was to bid for the skull of John Merrick, the Elephant Man. After his first offer of $500,000 was denied by the museum where Merrick's head rests, he raised his offer to $1 million, then to $1.5 million.

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Is Michael Still a Thriller? | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

2:30 p.m., Baton Rouge. An elephant costume sent from the National Federation of Republican Women has just arrived. They want a college student to put it on and escort Bush to the podium. Christy Casteel, Bush's Louisiana campaign director, needs to clear the costume with the Secret Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of a Political Machine | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

THE worst are the visigoths of vapidity that have been catapulted by hypertrophied marketing corportations into the realm of the so-called cutting edge. The search for multi-million record sellers has truly created some strange monsters. Nothing in the cultural history of the Western world, for example, could be...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Grammy and Grandpa | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

Carl Icahn juggles Texaco, TWA and USX. -- Hypermarkets have it all -- at a discount. -- Can an elephant learn to dance?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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