Word: wee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though I must tell you, however Harvard it is, I will not miss the marching band's wake-up call in the wee hours of Saturday morning...
...tour, IRS recording artist Vinx. Friday: John Lincoln Wright and The Sourmash Boys with Courage Brothers. Saturday: Rounder-Bullseye recording artist Little Jimmy King & Memphis Soul Survivors. Tuesday: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick. Wednesday: James Brown's sax man Maceo Parker's Mo Roots featuring Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis...
...resurrected as a talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L. games by political correctness: "The Eagles, an endangered species, will of course cover the spread against those pillaging, earth-destroying Cowboys." Or when he (infrequently) admits to a gaffe and as punishment spanks...
SHOW BUSINESS How upset should we be about Pee-wee...
Courageous moves by these entertainment giants, no doubt protecting an unsuspecting public from . . . what exactly? The contumely heaped upon Pee-wee -- while George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals, and while severed human heads and scattered skeletal remains were being traced to a mass murderer in Milwaukee -- can be seen as a trifle excessive. If Reubens is guilty of anything, it is of making a very bad career move. Solitary sexual acts performed in public, even in a darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal...