Word: pees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALEXANDER STEAVENSON was four when he was taught by "Miss Diana." "One day," he says, "me and my friend Charlie were in the toilets at school. I think we were messing around, trying to see who could pee the farthest. She came in and startled us, so we turned around--in panic or something--and got her across the shins. She was very nice about it all, I think. We didn't get into too much trouble. But she rang my mother to tell her we'd been naughty but that she'd had words with us and she thought...
Gary Panter, designer: Pee Wee's Playhouse. The chamber is a concrete island floating in a burning sea of oil. Speakers are lowered onto the floor by their ankles through a skylight. Seating is quite diverse...
What you want: webcrawler.com Typo: webcralwer.com What you get: A link that points to Pee-Wee Sherman's Perverted Playhouse
...Given Pee Wee Herman's persisting popularity and the hordes of fans he has at Harvard (a fact which is convenient if not necessarily true). I ask, "might you be able to set me up for some interview time with Reubens?" Anderson is cordial, but he isn't buying. "Paul rarely does interviews," he explains. "Actually, he doesn't do them at all." Still, he's very sympathetic and even friendly--he promises to forward my interview request and urges me to call him if he doesn't get back to me soon enough...
...give him four business days to pop the question to Pee Wee and for Reubens to mull over his response. Then, bubbling over with anticipation, I give Anderson a Call late in the afternoon. But he's not in his office, I'm told. I call back four times over three days and remarkably, each time he's in a meeting, on the other line or not at his desk. On my fifth call, after I identify myself as a reporter for The Harvard Crimson, something clicks with the women on the other end of the line...