Word: nemo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure they would know of the vessel if it were genuine. Argued a spokesman for H. Clarkson, the London ship brokers: "It's absolute nonsense." The U.S. Navy tried unsuccessfully to locate the sub's owner. By week's end the owner of the mystery vessel -- was it Captain Nemo? -- had not yet surfaced...
...shaggy-dog story is a tale without any real ending, then this is a shaggy-dog story. The dog in question is Nemo, and he belongs to former Pittsburgh Pirates Star Willie Stargell, 43, and his family. When Stargell heard that a dog-food company was running a "Search for the Great American Dog," he figured that had to be Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart...
...clearing of a forest that Bambi and Thumper might have been pleased to call home, a spaceship sits - not a high-tech marvel of the NASA future but a bell-shaped spinster of a ship, with old-fashioned street lamps appending and the unmistakable aura of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures moving about in capes and cowls on a field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns...
...enjoyment of wealth remains essentially benign, childish in its selfishness, but childlike in its spirit. Whether the old miser would acquire this volume is a moot point. It is pricey; on the other wing, it is an investment. An entire genre of clothbound comic strips from Little Nemo to Doonesbury has flourished in the post-Pop era, but seldom has such loving care been lavished on a volume of bygone entertainment. Collectors would have to pay close to $2,000 for the original comics containing these stories, and even in those, the panels would not be so brightly colored...