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Beginning with David Letterman and Johnny Carson, the first reaction of many was to make Hart the butt of a national laugh-in. A front-page Des Moines Register cartoon showed Hart wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...Chinese press frequently runs cautionary tales of cozened brats. A cartoon in Chinese Youth, for example, depicts an obese child lying in a bed littered with toys, stuffing himself with cakes and milk served by Mother, while Father stands ready to dress him. In his column in the China Daily, Xu Yihe writes disapprovingly of Jiajia, a friend's pampered daughter who barely budges to prepare for school in the morning. While Jiajia sits on her bed, says Xu, "her mother combs her hair, her grandmother feeds her breakfast, her grandfather is under the table putting her shoes...
...writes about what it is to be an intellectual susceptible to popular culture," including Daffy Duck cartoon and Hollywood movies, said Vendler. While his poetry is often difficult to read, she added, Ashbery writes to have "the wrecking ball of experience" shatter the "ivory tower of intellectuals, so that the street noises can come...
Critics of children's TV programming are flexing muscles in a number of arenas. In September, just three days before its new children's schedule was | set to debut, CBS abruptly withdrew The Garbage Pail Kids, a cartoon show based on the gross-out series of bubble-gum cards by that name. The network denies that it caved in to pressure, but the cancellation came after a barrage of complaints from parents and CBS affiliates...
...starting to fade because of oversaturation. "We're winding down these programs," says Stephen Schwartz, director of marketing for Hasbro, which has already canceled two toy-linked shows, Glo Friends and Potato Head. Ironically enough, the marketplace itself is proving to be a nemesis of TV's cartoon characters, just when federal regulators are beginning to think that it is once again time to lay down...