Word: pints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heard about the new Sonny and Cher dolls? Wind them up and they break apart. Well, not exactly, but starting in May, kids who are bored with their Barbies and Kens will have pint-sized versions of the TV couple to cuddle. That's when Mego International, makers of Batman, Robin and Star Trek dolls, will launch a $1 million ad campaign to market 12½-in. versions of Sonny and Cher to the moppet set. The Sonny doll will come with a twelve-piece wardrobe (including a sparkling silver lame jumpsuit), while the little Cher will have...
Truly comic characters appear onstage about as often as there is a lunar eclipse. That is what makes the arrival of Norman, the pint-sized anarchist of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy, an occasion of happy terror. The most satisfying laughs are those induced by determined worms, and Norman is an Attila of the worm world...
When he was 16, he ran away from his Queens home to join the Marines. "I was afraid the war would be over before I got in," said Columnist Art Buehwald, "so I gave some drunk a half-pint of whisky and got him to sign my papers as my father." Last week Buchwald was given the "Runaway of the Year" award-predated to 1942-by the Special Approaches in Juvenile Assistance Board. The funnyman allowed as how he had only one regret: "The old drunk who patriotically gave me to his country" was not on hand for the occasion...
...Midshipmen with several events left to go. So in the last event, the Harvard coaches split the 400 free relay teams to even them out as well as possible and to let them race against each other. To make things interesting, each man on the relay put up a pint of ice cream on the outcome of the race...
...cream relay turned out to be very close (one tenth of a second) with Craig, Neville, Mark Depman and Canales each collecting a pint of ice cream for dessert...