Word: paraphernalia
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...history. What was more, "Peanuts" was single-handedly expanding an industry that would revolutionize worldwide entertainment into the next century. In the late '60s, for the first time in the book trade, booksellers started to sell not just "Peanuts" books but also sweatshirts, dolls and an increasing array of paraphernalia that bore the image and form of the characters in the books - an old idea called "licensing" that "Peanuts" products would turn into a global phenomenon, bringing in $1 billion a year to United Features and making Schulz richer than any popular artist in the world. USING A CROW-QUILL...
...Coalition is most well known for its book, Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement, which purports to document over 2,000 cases of people allegedly killed while in law enforcement custody. The book was sold at yesterday's rallies, along with shirts, pins and other Coalition paraphernalia...
...blame my Big Apple counterparts for gloating about the upcoming New York-New York World Series (hey, even Frank Sinatra couldn't have put it better). I quietly retired my Bay Area paraphernalia as the Mets dramatically eliminated the Giants with two extra-inning victories and the Yankees outlasted the A's in five games. But, on the verge of seven straight games between the Mets and the Yankees, it's time to put my foot down...
...after the 1970s, the ones he is most remembered for-I thought, quite succinctly, "Cute!" At the time, it seemed to me that Guston's motley crew of regular characters-pointy, cone-headed creatures with endearing toaster-slit eyes, big cycloptic heads, crudely drawn shoes and other everyday paraphernalia-operated in and seemed privy to a very special world, impervious to the scrutiny of cynical adult types. The muteness of these things held a sort of infinite communicability and possibility within themselves; above all, they didn't seem symbolic, didn't seem to have the onus of a "deeper meaning...
...HUPD officers responded to Adams House and recovered abandoned drug paraphernalia...