Word: beaverisms
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...somebody spike the drinking water in the offices of this country's senior legislative body? No one can deny that the Senate has gone completely haywire. While the old boys in the House of Representatives have peculiarly maintained the eager-beaver attitude evoked by the Contract On America since the last election, several of our senators appear to be marching to their own bongo drums...
Until recently, however, broadcasters ignored the law. After researchers discovered that stations throughout the country were claiming cartoons and old episodes of Leave It to Beaver and The Jetsons met the law's requirements, the fcc began a proceeding to make them clean up their act. There are more good children's television shows today than there have been in more than a decade, but even now 60% of the programs broadcasters claim meet the minimal requirements of the Children's Television Act air between...
Growing up in Philadelphia, in a family that mocked the fantasy life of '50s sitcoms, Robert was the anti-Beaver, the original geeky guy. At 17 Crumb wrote a Valentine to himself that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb...
...Meltdown is in love with his chief scientist, Dr. Sara Bellum, who is supposed to design his nuclear power plant. But Dr. Bellum annoys her boss by using her time and his money to invent a brain transfer machine which she tries out occasionally on her hunchbacked assistant, Igor Beaver...
...them sell you by the pound." Daren Firestone '96 is truly insane as Estelle Crazy, a lunatic member of the 69th Special Division who goes around quoting old movies and Academy Award presentations. And first-year Danton Char turns in an impressive performance as the deformed Mr. Beaver...