Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans have to adjust to the new ways as well. When the team gave away free beer one night, Penguin supporters pitched empties onto the ice in disgust at some unsportsmanlike play on the part of the opposition. Warshaw has devised a solution: next time the beer will come in "collectors' cans" emblazoned with the Penguin logo. "They won't throw those away," he predicts...
...this effort is expected to start paying off within two years. The club is talking with such Western firms as Seagram's, McDonald's and Pepsi about crucial sponsorship deals. It is also looking to sell Penguin paraphernalia abroad in hopes of winning a chunk of the $800 million N.H.L. merchandise business...
...Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee; Penguin India; 303 pages...
BATMAN IS DEPRESSED. FIRST HE READS a headline in the local paper: PENGUIN CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Then, while rounding up some crooks, he nearly causes the death of Commissioner Gordon. BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, which is joining Fox's Sunday-night schedule after scoring big ratings in daytime, has the same dark hues as the hit movies on which it is based, but probably more entertainment bang for the buck. The animation nicely reproduces the films' shadowy, expressionist look; the action scenes really make sense; and the scripts aspire to more. This brooding superhero even paraphrases Santayana: "A fanatic is someone...
...Viking Penguin...