Word: logo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lazer Tag, the $29.95 Lazer Battle includes a plastic gun that shoots out an infrared light beam and a target worn on the body that makes a beep when hit by a shot from an opponent's weapon. Both parts will have the red-white-and-blue G.I. Joe logo. Worlds of Wonder, which will produce the set, wants its Lazer toys to start reaching the eight-and-under audience, where G.I. Joe's name holds sway. Hasbro, meanwhile, gets a 4% to 6% cut of the wholesale price...
About 25 area businesses have also contributed to the cause by buying advertisements in the program or by selling the organizers materials at half-price, Lori B. Rutter '89, one of the organizers said. She added that Jonathan H. Mermin '87 will sell hand-painted logo posters after the concert to raise more money...
Amerika can't be taken seriously. It shouldn't be. That the United Nations is threatening to sue ABC for "misuse" of its logo only lends legitimacy to the network's racist tripe. The shrill indignation of the show's critics has the same effect. Post-episode forums on the show's "significance," which draw on "experts" whose expertise is just a wisp below the Phil Donahue standard, don't help either...
...over something as tawdry as a flashy T.V. drama. According to early reports, Amerika concerns itself with the sexual misadventures of its the wife of its handsome hero as much as with geopolitical commentary. And the wrong the U.N. will be made to suffer? The tasteless appropriation of its logo. How did things ever get this...
None of this would really be bothersome were it not for all the aggressors who merit the U.N.'s wrath more than logo usurpers. Maybe U.N. partisans with a yen for legal intrigue could come up with some type of lawsuit to force the organization to end its support...