Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Times announced that it has cleaned up its act. After a year of testing, a new ink has been introduced at the paper's two printing plants. The Times touts it as "reducing ruboff by 60 percent." The innovative ink was developed for the Times by New Jersey-based Sun Chemical, the world's largest ink company. The move brings the local Times up to the standard of the national edition, already printed with tidier inks. Those few who think smudginess is next to godliness needn't fear, however: according to the Times, about half the dailies in America still...
...week, when it was revealed that the media magnate had secretly -- and improperly -- "borrowed" $767 million from worker pension funds at the two public concerns under his control. The money is missing and unaccounted for. This most unsocialist of acts prompted the Mirror's conservative archrival, Rupert Murdoch's Sun, to run banner headlines in Thursday's edition asking cheekily, MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE BIGGEST CROOK...
Since so many of Spielberg's movies have dealt with abandoned or abducted children (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, just to name the top of the line), no one can doubt the director's emotional attachment to his material. It's just that he has chosen the wrong way to demonstrate it. In effect, he has spoiled his brainchild rotten. Hook is not bratty, which might at least have been fun. It's stuffy, like one of those overdressed rich kids, standing forlorn in the corner...
...Aztec Sun Gods and Himalayan Rescues...
...that seems guaranteed, but, within five minutes, he manages to lose it. Blunsten returns home where success surrounds him: his wife, Marcie, is a slick newscaster. His daughter, Peppermint, gets promoted every week in her job at Taco Parade: first to Golden Sombrero, then to Aztec Sun God and finally, to CEO. Even his pet, Yipper, wins fame and glory as a rescue dog in the Himalayas...