Word: wee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year offered no more materials-savvy work than the witty designs for Pee- wee Herman's CBS-TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse. Each episode is a psychedelic, slapsticky mixture of humanoid furniture (a bright-eyed "Chairry" that hugs Pee-wee when he sits in it), animated clay figures (Popsicles dancing in a freezer) and blithe video effects (Pee-wee driving a cartoon car down a cartoon highway). The colors are surreal and polymorphous, the sensibility postmodern -- playful with a vengeance...
...reminisced. "I traveled all over the place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know why I fight. It's a fire in my gut. But I'll tell...
...violinist in the same motley ensemble. Ellen, by this time nubile and knowing beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that...
...show that Ronald McDonald is the second most recognized figure among tots next to Santa Claus. It's hardly surprising that from time to time Junior decides he won't be happy until he meets Ronald McDonald in the flesh--there are 50 constantly touring the country--and Pee-Wee won't stop crying until he gets to Burger King for a Luke Skywalker commemorative glass...
...most recent Dartmouth antic was a pseudo-guerrilla raid conducted two years ago, when a small squad of Big Green fanatics assaulted the John Harvard statue with two gallons of green paint in the wee hours of the Thursday before the game...