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Word: peeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Edward is the innocent other, a literary type that stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shear Heaven | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...sitcom based on the John Candy movie, has already drawn fire for filling the mouths of its onscreen tykes with raunchy put-downs like "you suck" and "freckle butt." In the first episode of Cop Rock, the topic of urination is discussed no fewer than three times. ("I gotta pee," pleads a reluctant witness during a rough police interrogation.) CBS's The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, starring Sharon Gless as an attorney with midlife problems, features the season's most attention-grabbing opening line. In a conversation with her analyst, Rosie announces, "I'm thinking about maybe having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Novelty Is Only Skin Deep | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...believe for a moment, most of them, what they're saying. Metal musicians are no serious Satanists; their concerts are just theater pieces -- Cats with a nasty yowl. Clay is not the pathetic strutting stud he seems onstage; that's just a character. (Was Jack Benny really stingy? Is Pee-wee Herman really a goony child?) Bruce said what he thought; Clay says what his character thinks. So Clay and other entertainers on the edge are playing out fantasies -- their own and their audience's -- of the baddest boy in school, of the kid your parents prayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr blamed the problem in state government on a group of unscrupulous politicians who use public office for their own personal financial gain. He began his talk with an attack on Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whom he regularly calls "Pee...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Conservatives Attack Dukakis' Defenders | 4/26/1990 | See Source »

...playing it at ceremonies as far back as 1898. It made its major league baseball debut in Chicago during the 1918 World Series, when the band struck it up for no apparent reason and Babe Ruth and the crowd stood at attention. Now it is played before everything from Pee Wee hockey to the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Say, Can You Sing It? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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