Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: It was a story larger than a Heffalump. One day Pooh and his friends Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Kanga (not Roo, he got lost in the Hundred Acre wood) got caught in the middle of a Very Big Controversy. Ten years ago, you see, a friend of Christopher Robin's gave the toys as a gift to the New York Public Library, which everyone agreed was a Perfectly Legal Thing. Everyone, that is, except Gwyneth Dunwoody, a British Member of Parliament, who said yesterday that it was high time Pooh came home. Oh bother, thought Mr. Giuliani, the Mayor...
...Pooh? He sat thoughtfully in his glass case, and said nothing...
Against such a solid field of performances, though, the show's standouts come from several of the purely comedic roles. Jason R. Mills '99 delivers the show's most delightful comic performance as Pooh-Bah, the state advisor who has taken upon himself all of Titipu's offices except that of executioner. Managing to make one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most enduring and well-known characters unusually likable, Mills retains the character's indispensable stuffiness: "I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmic primordial atomic globule," Pooh-Bah sniffs genially, as he explains his haughtiness to Nanki...
...confound. For every theory that says our sister planet is and always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form of extra-terrestrial...
Life on Mars? NASA got you all excited about apparent signs of life found on a Martian asteroid. Now some scientists have begun to pooh-pooh the ?evidence...