Word: elmo
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...cousins and "An American Journey," the weekend festival on the Mall. The exhibit boasted a number of entertainers and scholars, but as I read down the list, one caught my eye: appearing in the Millennium Schoolhouse tent would be a variety of childhood favorites, "From 'Sesame Street' to Elmo." Yes, the furry red symbol of this past holiday season had, in the mind of the festival's copy writers, come beyond his "Sesame Street" roots to the point where he was something to contrast with his colleagues, like (as the description continues) "a jazz orchestra to a gospel choir...
...billing brought the Elmo agony that had plagued me all winter vacation to a head: Why Elmo? What has happened to America that "Sesame Street," with all its other colorful characters and personalities, can't appear as one harmonious cast, a community like those in which we all would like to live in? Why must the Elmo craze be spinning off even more Elmo products and scalpers with the original Tickle Me Elmo dolls still run amok in office pools and newsgroups...
Before some Harvard-Radcliffe for Elmo Club writes nasty letters, I will say that I do like Elmo, the consummately cute and wonderful rising star of the "Sesame Street" world. Maybe some of the Elmo hype can help finance the Corporation for Public Broadcasting programming that is so valuable and yet always so vulnerable to budget cuts. Maybe enough Washington politicians said, "Elmo who?" to their children that they will think twice about cutting the dollars that support the people and puppets that teach America's children (assuming the parents of those children show up in district polling...
...venture instead to the Mall, where the Inaugural Committee has arranged two days of free music, entertainment and food under the eight big tents. At the Technology Playground, visitors can contribute to the Inaugural Webumentary and send E-mail to the Clintons and Gores on 100 computer terminals; Elmo and Bill Nye "the Science Guy" will perform for kids at the Millennium Schoolhouse nearby, and over at the American Journey Pavilion, up to 3,000 Americans can listen to others tell the story of their personal journeys, a kind of civics class for the New Age. Administration officials roll their...
HALF MOON BAY, California: He was a Northern California resident in his 40s who had been a science student in the Midwest. And he was always sending packages wired up with batteries. In short, Tickle Me Elmo designer Mark Johnson-Williams was exactly the sort of guy the FBI was looking for in the Unabomber case. Johnson-Williams says the Federal agents looking for the Unabomber investigated him for six months. "I was always sending batteries and headless dolls in the mail. I think that's what caught their attention." No word on whether agents confiscated any of the popular...