Word: pac-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Howard Ashman has adhered to Griffith's plot with becoming fidelity, while sending it up by adding a funky chorus of observers: three black girl singers in tight skirts and tighter harmonies. In the show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson...
...books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express and Are You in the House Alone?, wrapped up in catchy cover art, are moving faster than Pac-Man manuals...
...bottles hold goldfish and pickles. The EKG machine beeps out themes from Rocky, Jaws, Close Encounters and Pac-Man. The chief pathologist tells his students: "There are more than 20 bodily fluids, and I am proud to say I have tasted every one of them." A poodle and a boxer, both wearing yarmulkes, sit mournfully by the graveside of one Spot Moskowitz. Steven Ford, once a President's son, now a soap-opera regular, gets bopped on the head with a food tray. "Attention," a metallic voice announces over the hospital speaker system, "E.T., phone home...
...clear that he did not expect an instant da from the Soviets. "The President wanted to know if I needed some leather pants to be patient," he quipped. "I told him no. Karpov, like his namesake [World Champion Anatoli Karpov], plays chess. We in the West like to play Pac-Man. We like to see instant results, but it's not going to be that way." Indeed, the differences between the two sides-some left over from past negotiations and a few new ones-may make any agreement unattainable. The very selection of the chief negotiators symbolizes what...
...Like Pac-Man, Japan nibbles away at the U.S. market...