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From The New Yorker In this history of & Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker From The Washington Post From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com "Sesame Street," the children's TV show that debuted in November 1969 and is still...
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From The New Yorker In this history of & Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker From The Washington Post From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com "Sesame Street," the children's TV show that debuted in November 1969 and is still going strong, is part of the wallpaper of contemporary popular culture, a fertile source of memories, motifs, music and more to virtually anyone under 45 in the United States -- or the 119 other countries in which the series airs. How ubiquitous is "Sesame Street"? Consider this: Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, anti-American demonstrators in Bangladesh flooded the streets waving posters of Osama bin Laden seated next to the show's popular yellow muppet Bert, who along with rubber-ducky enthusiast Ernie makes up one of the most relentlessly chaste same-sex couples since J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson shuffled off their mortal coils. In their rush for images of their new hero bin Laden, the demonstrators had unwittingly downloaded pictures from... See less
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