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...summit began, Gorbachev presented Bush with a cartoon showing the two as boxers, with a figure representing the cold war knocked senseless at their feet and a referee with a globe for a head raising their hands in joint triumph. Most of the session was devoted to the gulf; Bush aides asserted that neither the presence of Soviet military advisers in Iraq nor Moscow's call for a Middle East conference that would discuss not only Kuwait but the Israeli- Palestinian impasse and the civil war in Lebanon as well posed a major impediment to cooperation. En route...
...fanciful graffiti forms range from stylized signature "tags" to mural- size "pieces" that elaborately blend fanciful script, cartoon characters and messages with the artist's street name. In Los Angeles authorities are contending with organized teams of taggers who use sophisticated climbing gear to spray their signatures on overpasses or dodge high-speed traffic to emblazon murals on freeway center dividers. "They know their names will be up for months because the state department of transportation has to shut down the freeway to paint over the dividers," a harried official complained last week at a Los Angeles antigraffiti conference attended...
...leap out of the way of a speeding locomotive and finds his legs won't work, I'm pointing my finger and bending my thumb every which way with no visible result. Feeling more and more foolish in my futuristic headgear, I'm stranded in space above a cartoon rendering of a corner of Washington State, the victim of a computer simulation gone horribly awry...
...Cartoons have, moreover, simply got better. After the golden age in the 1940s and '50s, animation all but disappeared from movie theaters, while TV bastardized the genre with schlocky "limited animation." The current revival was sparked by Walt Disney Studios, which has more than tripled the size of its theatrical-animation unit since 1984 and ventured into TV cartoons for the first time. The busiest newcomer is Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which has produced cartoon features like An American Tail and maintains an animation unit of more than 300 in London. Even Hanna-Barbera, the K mart of TV cartooning...
Animation remains a curiously old-fashioned, labor-intensive craft. A typical feature-length film requires 100,000 frames, or cels, each of which has to be painted by hand. Even with simpler TV animation, a half-hour cartoon usually requires 16 to 18 weeks of production, compared with three or four weeks for a live-action show. To save money, much of the work is shipped overseas, usually to the Far East. Artists there do most of the frame-by-frame drawings, working from character models and storyboards prepared in the U.S. Computer animation is also being used to provide...