Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artwork on the cereal box was meant to entertain breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover...
Among the issues the poster lists are a "petition for a new academic calendar" and "easy access to university policy, esp. financial." Chedaya said she chose to emphasize issues rather than try to entertain potential voters because she "believe[s] in the intelligence of the Harvard University students...
...found himself alone by the telephone; the once coveted party guest and confidant was now treated like a polluter of punch bowls. "What did they expect?" he asked at the time. "I'm a writer, and I use everything. Did all those people think I was there just to entertain them...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...House leadership. Says one staffer: "She was close in but never inside." Some House members regard her as a bit of a flake. She signs her congressional mail with a smile symbol and is still taunted from time to time for having donned a bunny suit in China, to entertain children during Easter...