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...entrusted chiefly to Donald Duck, who expresses it in terms of an alarmingly incongruous case of hot pants. Thanks to an ingenious but seldom very rewarding blend of drawings and regular color-movies with living actors, Donald whizzes from one Latin American beauty to the next like a berserk bumblebee. Since he remains at base a combination of loud little boy and loud little duck, his erotomaniacal regard for these full-blown young ladies is of strictly pathological interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot to watch a couple of engaging bears, hindfeet clasped in paws, rock back & forth on their bottoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

With such berserk intelligence J. C. A. B. M. Morton daily fills one-sixtieth of the paper-short Daily Express' total news-and-features space (about 600 inches). He writes his nonsense column under the name "Beachcomber." It is relentlessly clanky, scholarly, satiric-miles over the head of many of its readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Beachcomber and Timothy Shy | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Gosh, When I Tell 'Em." War-hardened U.S. and British correspondents seemed more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Inner Wrath | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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