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...October 9, "Boyd's Eye View" cartoon depicts John Harvard stuck to a tar-baby labeled "South Africa." A tar baby is a racist symbol out of Southern slave-culture as well as an insulting term for a Black person. Its use in the cartoon is both inappropriate and offensive, and I hope that The Crimson will print an apology. Yongjin...
...Crimson apologizes for any perceived racial overtones in the cartoon, which were not intended...
...nostalgic return of superheroes and other familiar cartoon figures like Archie and Veronica may be part of the same national mood that first brought back the Superman movies and made Rambo into a pop icon. But it is also the result of savvy marketing by the comic industry's Big Three, which have pushed their product aggressively at specialty shops, supermarket check- out counters and bookstores. Dozens of other companies have climbed on the comic-book bandwagon, emblazoning characters on lunch boxes, beach towels and posters...
...because occult scenarios are best played in the Skull Cinema. On a real screen his lethally gifted children often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood the genre") and the summer's Maximum Overdrive ("a stiff"), which...
...credit must go largely to two men. One of them, Steven Bochco, was the co- creator (with Michael Kozoll) of Hill Street Blues, the police drama that brought the genre a gritty new look, bustling narratives and a recognition that police officers are adults, not cartoon heroes. The other, Michael Mann, gave the formula another new twist a few seasons later with Miami Vice, which used flashy visuals and a thumping rock sound track to transform familiar cops-and-robbers tales into moody morality plays...