Word: pinwheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt that it can be made to pay. But it is already having an impact on cable programming outside Columbus. In March, Warner began selling to cable operators nationwide 13 hours a day of children's programming, approved by Columbus viewers, under the general name Nickelodeon. Sample shows: Pinwheel for preschoolers, featuring puppets, mime and dance; Video Comic Books, showing pages of the Green Lantern and Space Ranger with dialogue balloons, voice-overs and sound effects; and America Goes Bananaz for teenagers, a mix of zany comedy and rap sessions about drugs, birth control, sibling rivalry...
...kids who made up the New Left and counterculture are men and women now. They did not merely step onto the centrifuge of the '60s and pinwheel themselves out in the direction of Aquarius, to vanish forever. Many simply settled down. Says David Dellinger, 62, an elder statesman of the movement: "A lot of people had been leading emergency lives fbr-a-long time. They had put off schooling, babies, their own lives." Whatever their real accomplishments, the New Leftists and their allies during the '60s were engaged in an immense, new kind of theater...
...troupe acted out various scenes from text-books, illustrating the sex-role stereotypes forced on school children. In one scene, the little boys blew on their pinwheels to make them spin, while the little girls waited in vain for the wind to make their pinwheels go. "Maybe there'll be wind tomorrow," the wide-eyed and gray-bearded Ira says sweetly, as he holds up his imaginary pinwheel...
...frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof of a spoof...
Repeatedly the Senators asked why Mitchell had not taken any action against Liddy for proposing crimes to the nation's top law officer. Asked Senator Lowell Weicker: "Didn't it occur to you to call up the President and say, 'I have got some pinwheel in my office here that is going to be the counsel in your re-election campaign, and I think I ought to warn you, you have got a lot of trouble on your hands'?" Democrat Daniel Inouye asked what differences there were between the Justice Department's prosecution of antiwar...