Word: herman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brunt of the support came from the Class of '97, from people like Cho, Chris Sue-Ling, Chris Nicholson, Brian Algra, Ioannis Dosios, Sunny Wang, Hahrie Han, Sheldon Reid and Herman Sanchez. Nicholson and Cho were the IM reps this year, but all these people came to many a game...
...Ling is not alone. Weitzel coined names for other IM stars as well. Algra is "The Money Store" because he's so clutch; Cho is "The Sparkplug;" Sanchez is Herman "The House" Sanchez; Dosios is "The Greek Wonderchild;" Nicholson is "The General;" and Reid is "The Interior Muscle," for his rebounding skill...
...think about all these questions, but mostly I find myself thinking about Pee Wee Herman. I think about Pee Wee Herman because while the press is busy making nice to the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the nation's liberal establishment basks in an afterglow of acceptance and legitimacy, Paul Reubens, the man responsible for the film Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the television show "Pee Wee's Playhouse," continues to hover in a kind of pop culture purgatory...
...overdoing The Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release of a collection of 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' episodes on videotape...
Given Pee Wee Herman's persisting popularity and the hordes of fans he has at Harvard (a fact which is convenient if not necessarily true). I ask, "might you be able to set me up for some interview time with Reubens?" Anderson is cordial, but he isn't buying. "Paul rarely does interviews," he explains. "Actually, he doesn't do them at all." Still, he's very sympathetic and even friendly--he promises to forward my interview request and urges me to call him if he doesn't get back to me soon enough...