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...Eliot resident said his favorite character was Ernie because he thought they looked alike, except Staebler didn't have a rubber ducky like the orange muppet...

Author: By Hillary T. Coyne, | Title: `Sesame Street' 25 Years Old | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Actually, The Chevy Chase Show might have found a niche. A tall, rubber- faced, middle-aged entertainer who likes to schmooze with Hollywood celebrities -- he just might have been the real heir to Johnny Carson's disfranchised audience, the people confused by Dave and disappointed by Jay. Trouble is, Chevy still wants to be hip, outrageous, the choice of a new generation. Somewhere, Pat Sajak is smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late-Night Mugging | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...answer is to provide a gearlike association, the way sports shoes have done by gluing on wildly colored pieces of leather and rubber, supposedly of different density and (nifty gear wording here) torsional rigidity, so the shoe looks like a machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the big, fat tennis racquet for big, fat weekend players, brought out a big-head "Vortex" racquet three years ago. It was the latest in a triumphant evolution of big racquets made of ever more exotic materials, including graphite and boron, and similar alarming materials. The Vortex was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geared to The Max | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

While the menu will not be altered, he said the management hopes to redo the stairs soon, encasing them with metal and adding rubber tread...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Remodeled, But Still The Kong | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

...market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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