Word: humanoids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...
...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...
Devo: Love Without Anger (Gerald V. Casale). The syncopated anarchists of rock postmodernism use animated Ken and Barbie dolls and humanoid chickens to dispatch a characteristically acid valentine...
...country; here is the Olivetti M20 that entertains bystanders by drawing garishly colored pictures of Marilyn Monroe; here is a program designed by The Alien Group that enables an Atari computer to say aloud anything typed on its keyboard in any language. It also sings, in a buzzing humanoid voice, Amazing Grace and When I'm 64 or anything else that anyone wants to teach...
...habit of demanding sustained output from its artists, even at the cost of substandard quality Witness the proliferation of Saturday morning cartoons in response to the nationwide popularity of "The Flintstones." What followed was a wave of amazingly identical animated series, all featuring a family and it, highly humanoid housepet living in an unusual situation, i.e. on another planet. The fact that many of these disappeared from the networks within a few months hints at the disparity between perceived demand and real satisfaction, and underlines the need for artistic endeavors to proceed relatively independent of popularity indexes...