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...trends. Blaxploitation movies like "Shaft" and "Cleopatra Jones" and techno-fear movies like "War Games" and "The Net" are good examples. When self-conscious marketing towards minority groups clashes with Hollywood's insatiable desire for money, we are assaulted with terribly confused, relatively lame efforts such as "To Wong roo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'To Wong Foo' Not Worthy of 'Priscilla's' Old Pantyhose | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...published a 710-page biography entitled Franklin D. Roo- sevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny.Freidel was working on a short biography ofRoosevelt for college students when he died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freidel, Roosevelt Scholar, Dies at 76 | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

...simple: put stick-to-itself Velcro on a sphere that is roughly the size of a tennis ball. Apply the same stuff to two mitt- size disks that have a strap across the back for a handhold. Presto! A craze known variously as Magic Mitts, Scatch, Katch-a-Roo and Super Grip Ball. On streets, playgrounds and at the beach, players have added their own fancy moves, twisting into pretzel shapes to make behind-the-back catches, or getting a grip on the ball while doing a high-kick. Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The (Sticky) Fad of Summer | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...most popular one goes: "hip za zoo za chik-a room ba zoo F. Skiddy Von Stade mister Fu (clap) Man (clap) Chu (clap, clap) teddy roo teddy ra teddy ruddy duddy fuddy duddy sis boom ba Harvard Harvard...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Aqua Antics | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

...want people who presently are powerless in society to become participants rather than statistics who are told what to expect from the mandarins and the corporate executives," said De Roo. Trudeau, traveling in Thailand last week, was unimpressed by the bishops' statement: "I don't think their economics are very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jobs and Morals | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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