Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larries do the bulk work, in this case a lot of hand smearing of stucco on elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
...Python's sordid animator in Time Bandits and often uses people as if they were cartoons. There are many violent scenes worthy of Tom and Jerry or Wile E. Coyote except with live subjects as characters smash into walls, eat rats, and explode. It's bad enough when Elmer Fudd blows up and survives unscathed, but the violence here is too up-front to be humorous and gets in the way of any moral...
DIED. Michael Maltese, 72, pre-eminent cartoon animator and writer who, starting in 1937, helped create such characters as Henery Hawk, Sylvester Cat and Road Runner, and invented countless comic calamities for them and others, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and the Flintstones; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...idiotic idea, but standard Massachusetts thinking: tax the hell out of 'em for programs that aren't needed," Ned B. Elmer, a second year student from New Hampshire explained...
Nevertheless, some advocates of holistic medicine are dabbling with it. Says Psychologist Eleanor Haspel-Portner of Los Angeles: "We have found that for some people it's a safe place, for others it's scary. But it has on the whole been very useful." Adds Dr. Elmer Cranton, president of the American Holistic Medical Association: "How could it not be beneficial to understand oneself-unless something is too heavy to handle...