Word: wee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly registered among the seismic aftershocks of the original arrest. Reubens' mug shots made the front pages; heavy psychological hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute clip including Pee-wee that was being shown during backstage tours...
...hyperkinetic nerdiness was irresistible to millions of children. Pee-wee Herman was a grownup version of little brother: winsome, goofy, capable of saying dumb things and beatifically happy with the panorama of this world. When Pee-wee talked to inanimate objects, like chairs, they talked back, which, as everyone under 10 knows, is just what they are supposed to do. This man-boy with the tight suit, googly eyes and lipsticked mouth was not every parent's cup of tea: add a leer and the little guy could pass for the emcee of a Berlin nightclub, circa...
...network canceled his series in April -- the summer slot was to have been filled out with reruns -- and last week Pee-wee was effectively slaughtered by bad publicity. The news got out that Paul Reubens, 39, the actor who created and played the Pee-wee character for more than 10 years, had been arrested in a Sarasota, Fla., porn-movie theater and charged with "exposure of sexual organs," which translates as masturbating...
...they feature bright-eyed hosts, enthusiastic studio audiences and bogus names like Incredible Breakthroughs and Amazing Discoveries. They are increasingly populated with celebrities. Victoria Principal, Ali MacGraw, John Ritter, Art Linkletter, Fran Tarkenton, Meredith Baxter and Cathy Lee Crosby are among the stars who moonlight as salespeople in the wee hours...
...made a more seemly Proposal, exempli gratia, "HARVARD CLOTHED COLD DIVESEICURE," he might have found Favour. But ye Fellowe hath shewn scaree ye Witts of an Yalie. So in disgust say wee: ye Figge of Spaine la Goodbody Lane! Of politickal Rectitude his is a mind devoide. Verily, wee doth suspect him of consorting with Jacobites and diverse other dangerous Radicals, gainst which wee must all watch and warde most vigillantly...