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Nothing, in short, about her prior career hinted that she could be as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than...
...spokesperson said the sub apparently was lost in the area between Norway and Greenland. Col. Gollow Gjeseth, press spokesperson of Norway's Supreme Defense Command, said in a telephone interview that a Norwegian observation plane sent over the area about 11 a.m. EDT saw "a Soviet ship and two rubber boats...
Testament to this evasive style in both diet as well as exercise is the newly developed and increasingly popular Electrical Muscular Stimulation devices. You go into some high tech chamber of fitness, lie down on a table and let some person in a white oufit slap rubber pads on vital muscular areas. Your muscles are then contracted by force of electrical impulses--no work, no sweat, only modern technology...
While our parents reminisced about the Beaver and Pinky Lee, we spoke of rubber duckies, talking frogs and furry, blue monsters. We sang about the alphabet, laughed like Ernie and made fun of Bert's passion for pigeons. For an hour every afternoon, from age two to eight, we sat in front of a television. Life...
...cast of Muppets and celebrities urged Ernie to forget about his rubber duckie when he played the sax. The Muppets sounded like Louie Armstrong. The procession of celebrities was endless. First, John Candy. Then, Jane Curtin, Pee Wee Herman, the New York Mets, the New York Giants, Ladysmith Black Mombazu, Paul Simon, Danny DeVito, salsa queen Celia Cruz, etc. All telling Ernie to "put down the duckie" for a while. It was a rare treat, a scene that affirms Sesame Street's place as the most original show on television...