Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which seem just to be one or two characters on stage, belting out their numbers with little else of interest. It's a shame when this happens; it's like being in a car that accelerates and comes to full-stop, again and again. The characters change moods like cartoon figures, adding to the merry simplicity of the plot and milking Gilbert's wit for all it's worth. This is effortless, fun entertainment...
...beloved scrutiny writer Seth Mnookin traipsed all over Chinatown taking pictures to illustrate his piece and had his life threatened many times. The pictures didn't come out. Back at The Harvard Crimson, we faced cartoon dilemmas, late text, late editing, computer mishaps...the usual horrors, plus four extra pages in which they could occur...
Most children who watch violent cartoons are probably able to distinguish that what is being done is sometimes wrong. They are able to say that they wouldn't kill people just because their favorite cartoon character killed someone. Sometimes this isn't even a matter of conscious thought. Most children regard cartoons as a form of entertainment. They laugh. They don't take copious notes and contemplate how to recreate what they saw on television that afternoon...
Maybe television and cartoon writers and producers are expecting too much from the public. Maybe they assume too much when they show "violent" scenes in expecting that children have already been taught that they shouldn't emulate the violence they see on the screen. Perhaps they place too much responsibility on parents by expecting them to instill proper morals and values into their children...
...Vice President have their own Internet accounts (although they aren't very good at answering their mail). "It's the Internet boom," says network activist Mitch Kapor, who thinks the true sign that popular interest has reached critical mass came this summer when the New Yorker printed a cartoon showing two computer-savvy canines with the caption, "On the Internet, nobody knows...