Word: saucers
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...Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic of gee-whiz atomic-age modernism. Most of all, it's touching to look back at the show's optimistic imagined future, in which there's a flying saucer in every garage and even inept button-pusher George Jetson can afford a robot maid and a Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle without worrying about his job getting outsourced to Pluto. --By James Poniewozik
...essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...
...melodrama, it tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo the style of Fushigi Yugi includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. What new readers may be surprised at are the frequent shifts into goofball humor and the author asides -- both of which are manga tropes...
...character famous in the Batman TV series in the 1960s [Oct. 6]. But the most captivating actress to play Catwoman in the Batman shows was the incomparable Julie Newmar. No one else could hold a paw to her. Please give credit where credit is due, along with a saucer of warm milk and a sprig of catnip. Wayne Harrison Loganville...
...TIME.comix: As you say in the introduction to "Fagin," you have your own history with stereotype, most particularly in the character Ebony White, a big-lipped, saucer-eyed African-American comedic sidekick to the Spirit. Although Ebony evolved with greater sensitivity in the latter half of the series' life, do you see "Fagin" as a kind of mea culpa...