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- <text id=91TT2269>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: American Notes:Classics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- CLASSICS
- Return of the Crayola Eight
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Since violet blue was retired 14 months ago, 300 crayon
- aficionados a month have been complaining to Crayola maker
- Binney & Smith. The Easton, Pa., company took eight traditional
- colored crayons off the market and replaced them with such New
- Age hues as cerulean, dandelion and vivid tangerine. But
- protests from groups such as RUMPS (the Raw Umber and Maize
- Preservation Society) have swayed the crayon giant. One million
- boxes of the Crayola Eight came back on the market last week.
- </p>
- <p> "Kids just love the eight new colors, but Moms like the
- old eight we replaced," explained Richard Gurin, the company's
- president. "We decided, at least for now, they are both right."
- Declared Robert Pagani, president of CRAYON (the Committee to
- Reestablish All Your Old Norms): "This is a great moral
- victory." And you thought the fall of the Berlin Wall was a
- milestone in history.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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