Word: elmo
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...touchy-feely than Oprah herself. Remember when Phil Donahue seemed really threatening to masculinity? Before that Merv Griffin seemed like a wimp. Daytime talk-show hosts follow some reverse Darwinian law whereby they get less and less threatening every generation. The next daytime guru is going to be either Elmo or Tinky Winky...
...savvy shopper could pick up that $34,000 ring at E.B. Horn without worrying about that pesky little $1,700 retail tax; a penny-pinching mom could buy a $25 Tickle-Me-Elmo and put away that $1.25 savings for a rainy...
...reefed against the African shoreline and the survivors may have set up colonies there - and hundreds of men succumbed to disease. Zheng He, too, died on his final, seventh voyage and was buried at sea. Ma Huan, a translator on several of Zheng He's expeditions, recalls how Saint Elmo's fire once blazed atop the mast of the treasure ship, prompting a shaken Zheng He to offer more lavish sacrifices to Tianfei...
...musician—he is a cultural celebrity. His name has been dropped on “Seinfeld” and he made a cameo appearance on the Christmas special of “The West Wing.” Even children recognize him: Ma has chatted with Elmo on “Sesame Street” and stopped by “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...
...wintertime. In our materialistic society, 'tis the season for conspicuous consumption. As the leaves crunch underfoot and the air turns frigid, the unending Christmas advertising blitz reminds us once again that our world is one in which a Tickle Me Elmo can be worth more than it's weight in gold, where Toys-R-Us has become the pilgrimage destination for the devout, and where we, facing an empty bank account and the expectations of a hundred friends and relatives, are supposed to have no choice but to be grateful that Visa (and our emergency line of credit) really...