Word: klutz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yetis, Daleks and a changeable klutz win a big following...
...computer "novels" produced by Infocorn, a Cambridge, Mass.-based software publishing house, the player is given a casebook of evidence, a floppy disc containing the plot, and twelve hours to unravel the mystery. If the murderer is not found in the allotted time, a character named Chief Inspector Klutz takes the player off the case. The program shuts down automatically and must be replayed from the beginning. As Deadline opens, a wealthy businessman has been found dead in the library of his mansion from a mysterious drug overdose. The player, who takes the role of inspector, has been called...
MARRIED. Jerry Lewis, 56, pratfalling prince of klutz currently appearing in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, and recuperating from a coronary bypass; and Sandra Pitnick, 32, who met Lewis four years ago when she got a dancing part in his movie Hardly Working; both for the second time; in Key Biscayne...
...Winter Park, Fla., it took Sandra Hinson only one quarter "to confirm what I'd known since high school phys.-ed.: yours truly is a total eye-hand klutz." TIME Contributor John Skow, who wrote the story, claims "no aptitude, but considerable attraction" toward the beeping machines. He found his skill grew roughly at the rate his money vanished. Skow also tested home game systems and found what any father could have predicted: his 15-year-old daughter wiped him out. Working with Skow was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who has been dueling with arcade machines for three years...
...questioned the label of conservatism for those who call the government "an incompetent klutz when helping Cleveland" and then demand billions of dollars for defense. Those who call themselves conservatives today differ only marginally from liberals, Will said, and therefore are "impotent in their criticism of liberalism...