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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to become a cultural grouch when you get into these studies," Putnam says reflecting on the pessimism some might perceive in his theories, "and by personality, I'm not a grouch," he says earnestly...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...like being a grouch, and I don't like being a grouch about TV, in telling people to stop watching TV. But the fact of the matter is: when you look at the data, it's just frightening...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Kermit the frog began life as muppet creatorJim Henson's aunt's coat. Grover did not start outas a blue monster and Oscar the Grouch wasoriginally orange. In fact, many "star" muppetsbegan as AMs (Any Muppet), new muppets created forbit parts that may later rise in popularity...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sesame Street Staff, `Residents' Celebrate Show's 30th Anniversary. | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

Obituaries of Travers--who died last week at 96, and whose real name was Helen Lyndon Goff--invariably (though respectfully) depicted her as a curmudgeonly grouch with a tendency to be "fierce" and "short" with her interlocutors, a woman who didn't "suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They all recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS OF STORYTIME | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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