Instead, Foodmaker would attempt to attract older, more affluent " yuppie " customers with a higher-quality, more upscale menu and a series of whimsical television commercials featuring Dan Gilvezan.

Johnson had a series of whimsical flyers advertising his design services printed via offset lithography, and began mailing these out.

* On December 21, 1942, CBS aired " Gremlins ," a whimsical story written by Louise Fletcher, on an episode of Orson Welles's patriotic radio series Ceiling Unlimited.

During this decade, Foglio co-founded Palliard Press and published additional comics, including a new Buck Godot series and the whimsical erotic series XXXenophile.

Usually said specials will present Dora with a bigger, more whimsical adventure than usual or with a magical task that must be fulfilled, or perhaps even offer a series of different adventures for Boots and Dora to travel through.

The game is whimsical in tone, with various in-game jokes and comical references to the heritage of the Mario series.

Tinker and Masius had brought a whimsical, soapy tone to the series which they were known for on St.

Later Apple dropped the whimsical titling in favour of a more sober " Developer CD series ".

Overtly whimsical elements were now downplayed in favor of more grounded real-life incidents and stories, and some of the series ' running gags from the 1972 – 92 years were recast in a more serious light.

Many series tell a short story, with often whimsical illustrations.

A series of whimsical photographic works by Jean Mercier showing people turning cartwheels and mid-air somersaults adorns the walls of the stairwell and passages to the exits.

Designed by Ed Benguiat and House Industries, the CD includes 5 Benguiat-inspired typefaces and a series of whimsical icons, dubbed " bengbats ," an exclusive interview with the legend conducted by the House Industries staff, and Benguiat's own jazz percussion in the background.

Less whimsical but no less technically sophisticated than his first three novels, it consists of an interlocking series of narratives revolving around a small group of interconnected characters.

Swann's poetry consists largely of short, whimsical pieces evoking a naive innocence.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber.

The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques ( particularly electronics and arcade games ) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.

Robert Phillips ( 1986 ), a collection of humorously whimsical short essays

* Cakes and Ale ( 2 vols., 1842 ), a collection of short papers and whimsical stories

He crafted extraordinarily intricate collages, created a large collection of abstract drawings and pursued numerous other avenues of non-cinematic art, sewing more dolls and some whimsical suits.

However, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald pointed out that " Blenders list-compiled via an arbitrary and anecdotal data collection process and ranked by Marks-included several whimsical criteria.

He also penned several short stories, ranging from hard science fiction to whimsical fantasy.

Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

* Anthony Armstrong's 1945 whimsical short story " Etaoin and Shrdlu " ends " And Sir Etaoin and Shrdlu married and lived so happily ever after that whenever you come across Etaoin's name even today it's generally followed by Shrdlu's ".

A clay animation short film by Sub-Genius Church founder Ivan Stang, " Martian Peen Worm " ( the short title of that film ) makes several whimsical Harryhausen references.

Malice Mizer was as famous for their music as for their live shows, featuring lavish historical costumes and stage sets, short silent theatre pieces preluding various songs, whimsical dance routines, and even a particularly notable instance of the vocalist descending to Earth ( the stage ) as a fallen angel, only to ascend again at the end of the concert.

It is an anthology of short, whimsical, erotic fantasy and science fiction stories, written and penciled by Phil Foglio.

He writes short stories, paints ( often in a whimsical, surrealist style ) and draws in the cartoon-strip mode.

In a special movie tie-in edition of the novel, Block added a short intro in which Bernie explained that he has a cousin named Bernice who is also a thief, giving a whimsical " in-continuity " explanation of the changes to the character.

Rather than his whimsical attributes, this story focuses on the futuristic and fantastic aspects of Eega Beeva and his environment, as do later stories.

The stories are generally whimsical, but based on antiquarian learning.

Columbia Presents Corwin ( 1944 ) offered stories ranging from serious to whimsical.

The letter " F " with the whimsical face became a familiar signature device, used as a space-filler tag at the end of stories in the magazine.

Since August 2008, Len has kept a blog and daily newsletter at LenBermanSports. com, using the form to continue his type of humor and whimsical sports stories.

The novel then takes a complete new direction in terms of both tone and style, as Serge — suffering from amnesia and total long-term memory loss, with no idea who or where he is beyond his first name — is doted upon by Albine, the whimsical, innocent and entirely uneducated girl who has been left to grow up practically alone and wild in the vast, sprawling, overgrown grounds of Le Paradou.

Melquíades, the keeper of the historical archive in the novel, represents both the whimsical and the literary.

But after reading about Walker Percy's novel, Love Among the Ruins, Irving abandoned the whimsical idea and wrote the now-published novel.

In a review of his fourth string quartet, the Washington Post cited the work ’ s “ jewel-like craftsmanship ,” saying, “ Dillon ’ s control of time was a conspicuously imaginative element throughout .” Gramophone called his recording Insects and Paper Airplanes “ Sly and mysterious … just when you thought the string quartet may have reached the edge of sonic possibilities, along comes a composer who makes something novel, haunting and whimsical of the genre … Each score is an arresting and appealing creation, full of fanciful and lyrical flourishes … Highly recommended .” And Musicweb International commented on “ music that is often profound without being pretentious, sometimes light-hearted but never ' lite ', humorous without being arch, and immensely appealing but never frivolous.

The twelve rather whimsical tracks bore names like " Unidentified Flying Object " and " The Little Man From Mars " in an attempt to make electronic music more accessible to the general public.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.

The furtive process by which the MOA-AD was designed and crafted runs contrary to and in excess of the legal authority and amounts to a whimsical, capricious, oppressive, arbitrary and despotic exercise thereof.

The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance ; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments.

Beck favored a cartoony versus realistic rendering of character and setting, which also came to be reflected in the whimsical scripting ( by Otto Binder and others ).

After Dark was an early screensaver for the Macintosh platform, and later PC / Windows, which prominently featured whimsical designs such as flying toasters.

When Jughead's family objected to Hot Dog living indoors because he was covered in dirt, Dilton Doiley built Hot Dog a doghouse full of whimsical inventions, which was the kickoff plot for the miniseries Hot Dog.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

Larnie Reid Fox popularised the idea of the DiceWalk, which was featured in the May 28, 2003 edition of sfweekly, students of psychogeography having already pioneered the art or science of random or whimsical excursions.

One of his first publications was entitled Gerania ; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies ( 1675 ), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something.

At a 1934 dinner for Lewis, Pepper called him " one of the most lovable and whimsical personalities which any of us have met in a lifetime.

A whimsical name – presumably from Scotland or nearby England – was " white wisky John " in reference to its wavy and somewhat unelegant flight, during which its large areas of light plumage are conspicuous.

The word was probably coined as a whimsical adaptation of aerobraking, which is the process of slowing a space vehicle by the use of friction against a planet's atmosphere.

Seafair begins in early July ; since 1972, its arrival has been heralded by the Milk Carton Derby, a whimsical boat race on Green Lake in which all the boats have been constructed out of empty milk cartons.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

Later students of the whimsical problem came up with solutions which managed to avoid any inconsistencies, by having the ball emerge from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and deliver its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.

The film's name is a direct reference to American sitcoms, which are noted for their focus on traditional family values and whimsical humour.

During the steamer trunk restoration process when the inside paper covering is removed, you will sometimes find whimsical dated notes in lead pencil made by the original craftsman as well as the circular saw blade impressions made on the rough-cut wood at the saw mill both of which give added character and value to the restored trunk.

The whimsical adventures of Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family ( which included Captain Marvel, Jr., Mary Marvel, the Lieutenants Marvel, etc.