Word: toon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...N.F.L. According to the league commissioner's office, the rate of player concussions -- one every 3.5 games -- has been unchanged since 1989, the first year statistics were kept. In 1979 Cowboys quarterback Roger ("the Dodger") Staubach retired after four concussions in one season, and Jets receiver Al Toon hung up his cleats in 1992 after 10 career concussions. N.F.L. players even have their own concussion-related argot. Mild blows are known as dingers or bell ringers (because players usually have a ringing in their ears), and a player who has suffered a severe hit is said to have been "sent...
...moll (Cameron Diaz). The computer wizards at Industrial Light & Magic help alchemize this ragged film into a megamorphic extravaganza. But Carrey doesn't need any cybernetics or silicon to rubberize his limbs. He is his own best special effect, the first star who is a live-action toon...
...this cottage industry has exploded. Welcome to the Toon Age of worldwide retailing, an age when Warner's fearsome Tasmanian Devil becomes a cult figure for kids, dads and inner-city gang members; when no little girl feels chic without her Princess Jasmine dress (from the smash Disney film Aladdin); when Paris designer Karl Lagerfeld ornaments the classic Chanel hat with impish Mickey Mouse ears. Hollywood's animated ephemera are Big Business everywhere: in the Disney themelands and at Warner's Six Flags parks, at chains like K Mart and Toys "R" Us, in sports-stadium concession stands (Michael Jordan...
With the brothers' appearance, the dialogue finally gains energy, and the genuine verbal fireworks restore some sense that these are complex characters that we should care about, and not merely cartoons. Yet, with the exit of the men, the women are once again stranded in Toon Town...
...long-ago-famous puppeteer- ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, and manipulated by activist fortysomething Hillary Democrats) represents a certain constituency. Dan Quayle, having no television surrogate to manipulate, has passed through the looking glass, playing himself, representing another America. He has become a moral symbol and performer himself: statesman and 'toon...