Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, had more than his fair share of abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations...
...Sunset Series show made up for a cancelled gig with Van Morrison in May and was a special trip East for the band. Their stage show highlights their broad talents. Kenny Loggins opens with a short acoustic set. He sang "Danny's Song," and "House at Pooh Corner," the sum total of his previous reputation, to a still-entering crowd. Loggins' voice is equal parts country twang and Elton John, and his performance of these songs was simple, as befit their accompaniment...
Winnie the Pooh. A rock musical by the Harvard Yard Summer Players. LEHMAN HALL. July 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28 eves at 7. Children $1, Adults...
...Spain. Though he began his career as a singer, Sanders moved easily into movies during the '30s and was quickly typecast as the unctuous villain in such pictures as Lloyds of London and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He called his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad and pooh-poohed his own acting ability, but won an Academy Award in 1950 for his role as the bitchy, jaded critic in All About Eve. His suicide note was totally in character: "I am leaving because I am bored...
...Zorza, the London-based Kremlinologist, saw the bombing strategy as "a deep game designed to exploit the differences between the hawks and the doves in the Kremlin in order to maneuver Moscow into bringing about a peace settlement in Viet Nam." The New York Post's James Wechsler pooh-poohed any pretense of preplanning: "What often seemed a calculated strategy of surprise actually reflects the infirmity of deep insecurity." Responding to Nixon's critics, William F. Buckley Jr. chortled: "The best that can be said about them is that they have been rendered incoherent...