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This year's "lighten up" award goes to Barbara Ehrenreich for her column "What a Cute Universe You Have!" [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. In it she slams the Pathfinder team for giving rocks on Mars cute names and Disney for making a cartoon that is funny. Offhand I would say that anyone who can land a robot on Mars deserves to name the rocks whatever he wants. It's O.K. for animated films to be funny. And Ehrenreich's sense of wonder and awe at the mysteries of life must be extremely fragile and shallow if it can be spoiled...
...FRANCISCO: R.J. Reynolds, owners of the Camel cigarette brand and its now-defunct cartoon icon Joe Camel, have signed a $10 million settlement with 13 Californian cities and counties. State attorneys, who filed the lawsuit in 1991, get their fees paid with $1 million of the settlement amount. The other $9 million will go toward anti-smoking education aimed at undoing Joe's influence among children. Surprisingly, R.J. Reynolds did not offer to pay off the settlement with Camel-embossed duffel bags and cigarette lighters...
...Salguero, glamorous Kate Suber, fireplug Lea DeLaria). They go places, do things, and the night air is magical, electric with fun. Wolfe brings Bergdorf mannequins and Natural History Museum troglodytes alive. Actors come with their own sound effects (taxi, subway, siren). It's like a vivid old New Yorker cartoon, animated by Tex Avery...
...presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities? Or has the dumbing-down process finally reduced communication on such topics to the level of a cartoon mentality? COLIN JOHNSON Sandy, Utah...
...smoking and would never dream of asking for compensation for something that is a personal choice. I am a Generation Xer who tried smoking at 15. And even at that age I was intelligent enough to realize that it is not a safe habit. A Marlboro Man or a cartoon camel had little to do with my smoking. Young people will always experiment--it is the nature of being young. Do people actually believe a cigarette will make them look like the Marlboro Man? I think not. JULIE BYRD Akron, Ohio...