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Henson

[ hen-suhn ]

noun

  1. Jim James Maury Henson, 1936–90, U.S. puppeteer: creator of the Muppets.
  2. Matthew Alexander, 1866–1955, U.S. Arctic explorer: accompanied Peary to North Pole 1909.


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The more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.

When Jim Henson created The Muppet Show in 1976, he unveiled a truly unique form of entertainment.

Of course, the Jim Henson Company owned the Muppets for decades, so a lot of the confusion is understandable.

NBC eventually tore down the dressing room and turned it into a Henson shrine.

I must, however, allow that Mr. Henson is a courteous disputant, and I hope I shall reciprocate his good feeling.

Mr. Henson's paper is not, in my opinion, a very forcible one on the intellectual side.

Mr. Henson sends me the pamphlet himself "with his compliments," and I have read it carefully.

The relation of Christianity to slavery is an historical question, and Mr. Henson treats it as though it were one of dialectics.

Mr. Henson simply reads into certain New Testament utterances what was never in the speakers' minds.

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