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Through his publicist, Reubens denied the accusation, but that little detail hardly registered among the seismic aftershocks of the original arrest. Reubens' mug shots made the front pages; heavy psychological hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-Wee's Misadventure | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Thou shalt purchase many graven images of me, and place them on thy tie and on thy Oxford, on thy reverse-weave sweatshirt and on thy mug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ten Commandments | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...provided Larew enough time to work through his guilt over not having proudly waved $80 in the faces of a group of "young, muscular, vaguely threatening" men, in some sort of liberal affirmation that just because they were Black he wasn't going to assume that they might mug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARE Responds to Criticism | 2/20/1991 | See Source »

...debated whether to identify Walter Cronkite, who has not been onscreen much lately, before putting him on the air. In the end, the network decided that the avuncular Cronkite mug would be sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Burst of Firsts | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Last semester, the EAC instituted a program similar to the Dining Services' Buy-A-Mug plan. They sold plastic Earth mugs in the dining halls and pushed students to conserve paper by bringing the mugs to meals...

Author: By Alissa W. Lee, | Title: Dining Halls to Switch To Recyclable Styrofoam | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

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