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Word: mutant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cartoon show in which a superhero named Captain Planet and a youth corps called the Planeteers valiantly fight villainous polluters like Dr. & Blight. The back cover of one issue of P3 (for Earth, the third planet from the sun), a glitzy new environmental magazine for kids, shows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shouting to readers, "Hey, dudes! Earth is a cowabunga planet! Let's keep it radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update the Ecokid Corps | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

COMING OUT OF THEIR SHELLS. There is more to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than movies, TV, comics, toys, candy and juice drinks. Now they have their own concert tour, destined for 40 cities through 1991 (this week: Milwaukee, Oct. 10-14; next stop: Detroit, Oct. 17-21). The 90-min. audience-participation show features many live-action characters familiar to turtle fans, including the metal-cloaked villain Shredder. With humor aimed at parents as well, this could be a perfect first concert for kids. Ready for pre-schoolers dancing in the aisles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 15, 1990 | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...morning before he goes off to school, plops himself in front of the set as soon as he gets home in the afternoon and gets another dose to calm down before he goes to bed at night. He wears Bart Simpson T shirts, nags Mom to buy him Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and spends hours glued to his Nintendo. His teacher says he is restless and combative in class. What's more, he's having trouble reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Is TV Ruining Our Children? | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...didn't know where Eraserhead was going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival off? Or the man with seared skin? Or the snakelike creatures in the radiator? Or the hideous mutant baby in the bureau drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...which the revered Kilgore Trout (we assume, though the finest of pulp writers for some reason is not identified), in a journal called Black Garterbelt, explains the meaning of life. Germs, it seems, are being toughened by higher beings for the rigors of space travel; and human society -- Mozart, mutant turtles and all -- has amounted to nothing more than a convenient Petri plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And So It Went | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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