Word: rompers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its initial charms, this romper room behavior quickly loses its appeal. Even Mr. Rogers knows that there's only so much time one can spend in Make-Believe-Land. Unfortunately, the characters in Lanford Wilson's play overstay their visit...
With their monotonous rows of eyeglass frames, optometrists' offices used to be about as exciting as barbershops. These days, though, many eyeware outlets look like a cross between Romper Room and a video arcade. Colorful blocks, spinning charts, precarious balance beams and computerized gizmos with flashing lights all vie for the eye's attention. The games and gadgetry are the tools of "vision therapy," an increasingly popular but controversial program that aims at making the eye as quick as the hand through exercise and training...
...final decision has not been made. Students, however, said they wanted wet parties back. "I never even got drunk at the old ones, but it was sort of a relaxing thing to have. It made you feel mature and sophisticated. Now I feel like the Romper Room," said Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 at yesterday's open house...
...fact, the biggest romper of them all, then-sophomore tailback Gill Fenerty, had just rushed for 337 yards and six touchdowns on 18 carries against the Lions. That's a good season in a single afternoon...
...months, the pills lay in the medicine cabinet untouched. His wife Sherri became pregnant early in May. With four children ranging in age from 20 months to eight years, she is a busy housewife, and as Sherri Chessen, she is also the star of a daily 55-minute Romper Room program on Phoenix's KTAR-TV. To quiet her nerves and ensure sleep, Sherri Finkbine took some of the British pills-in the second month of her pregnancy, when the danger that the drug will damage the fetus is greatest. Only then did she learn that what...