Word: shari
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simplest pleasures are often the ones that beguile a child, and who was more beguiling than Shari Lewis, a woman with a demure sock named Lamb Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this...
...There's an unnecessary coarsening of children's shows that feature characters that constantly pass wind, with mean-spirited, hostile relationships," Lewis once said. "I don't think that's what our children should be exposed to." As long Shari Lewis had a sock, there was an alternative...
...AILING. SHARI LEWIS, 64, the pixie-like puppeteer who gave life to Lamb Chop; with uterine cancer. The 12-time Emmy winner says she will continue production of her latest show, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, during treatment...
...Students may not be able to physically drop out at 14," says Shari Gonzales, head of Rio Rancho's first-year academy, "but mentally they can." After two months, it is too early to tell if Rio Rancho will prevent that. But if education reforms are worth anything, this high-desert incubator, perched Acropolis-like over the Rio Grande Valley, means to show and tell. --By Margot Hornblower/Rio Rancho...
...Shari A. Davis, a third grader from the Blessed Sacrament School, said that meeting her pen-pal was the highlight...