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...have involved his uncanny ability to get back down into the wild mind of a child. Cosby made his comedy mark by relating the foibles of his Philadelphia youth on hit albums like 1965's Why Is There Air? In the '70s, he turned Fat Albert into a Saturday cartoon series, and his kiddie- conscious commercials for big-time sponsors like Jell-O helped earn him one of the ad world's highest Q (positive-recognition quotient) ratings, a rank he still holds. In his first solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only...
...doing and their enthusiasm is contagious. That's fortunate--because by no means do Biggs and company produce a visually or verbally exciting show. The sets and costumes aren't much, the choreography is just sufficient and the jokes are familiar to those who've seen either the cartoon or the animated specials before...
...American action in Libya." French-speaking Swiss polled by the Lausanne newspaper Le Matin registerd an astonishing 67.8% majority for the attack. Opinion seemed vehemently opposed in Spain. A crowd in Barcelona smashed windows of a McDonald's restaurant, and El Pais, the leading daily in Madrid, published a cartoon of the U.S. flag with skulls for stars and bones for stripes...
...shuttle tragedy left its mark in some unexpected places. The New Yorker magazine, for example, had to stop its presses to change a cartoon in last week's issue in which a man seated on a barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
Rambo's hypocrisy has brought Stallone his share of enemies. Hill Street Blues star Charles Haid, a Navy veteran during the Vietnam War, observed that: "The whole idea of someone like Stallone representing the Vietnam veteran is absolute rubbish." Denouncing Stallone's film as a cartoon, Haid fumed "I'd love to get Stallone in a public forum where he and I could face...