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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been used to sell breakfast at least since Olympian Bob Richards promoted Wheaties. But the presweetened concoctions that currently have little palates tingling may leave grownups fumbling for another cup of decaf or a couple of Tums. Hard on the heels of the cartoon craze and hit movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal is doing kitchen box office. It consists of tiny, turtle-shaped marshmallow bits mixed with "Ninja Nets," pieces of khaki- colored wheat, which is used in adult cereal as well. The taste: concentrated marzipan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Ah, How Sweet It Is! | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. In just six weeks, $100 million worth of movie- goers have seen this live-action version of the TV cartoon. Were any of them adults? If so, they have seen a dark, plodding melodrama only rarely leavened by wit or derring-do. Heroes on the half shell; hit film on the hard sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 14, 1990 | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...sons, ages 8 and 4, are having a deprived childhood, and they resent it. Although virtually all their friends have seen Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my wife and I have stubbornly refused to let our children join the crowds at the box office. We cling to the old-fashioned, even reactionary, notion that watching one act of violence after another may be harmful to very young minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Parent's View of Pop Sex and Violence | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...started it," claimed Texas attorney general Jim Mattox, pictured in political cartoons as the aging "Mutant Ninja Candidate." "No, he started it," says state treasurer Ann Richards, the winner of last Tuesday's mud- splattered, swamp-dwelling Texas Democratic gubernatorial runoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunbelt Mud Slides | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Will TV audiences feel just as good about the mutant soap opera he has concocted? Frost hopes the series will reach "a coalition of people who may have been fans of Hill Street, St. Elsewhere and Moonlighting, along with people who enjoyed the nighttime soaps." ABC Entertainment chief Robert Iger admits the show will be a hard sell (especially in the time slot opposite Cheers on Thursday nights). Says he: "A lot of people have said Twin Peaks is the critic's dream. But is it the viewer's nightmare? I would hope that the answer is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Like Nothing On Earth | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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