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Think of it as an animated cartoon. Imagine the corporation as a sheepfold, its shepherds stupefied by years of prosperity and innocent of the ways of wickedness in far-off Wall Street. Now imagine a pack of wolves peering over the fence and judging that the assets gamboling behind it are tantalizingly undervalued by the marketplace...
...themselves. In the end, all concerned muddle their way to a bright new management team -- imported from Paramount and Warner Bros. -- that will restore the company's fortunes. But this seems more luck than foresight. Reality omits two things that old Walt would never have left out of a cartoon: an unambiguous hero and a clear-cut moral...
...sold apart. Buyers must assemble the kits at home, using sparsely worded drawings, a screwdriver and a little hexagonal allen wrench that IKEA supplies to install the special bolts in its furniture. IKEA gets promotional mileage even from the wrench: it appears everywhere in the store, talking in cartoon balloons and giving advice about such things as the store's return policy and its delivery service. The allure of the unassembled products is that they sell for at least 30% less than finished furniture of comparable quality. Customers do not seem to mind putting their bargains together. In its first...
Buckner always reminded me and my brother of the cartoon character Asterix, with his bushy mustache, but then again Jerry Remy did too. Is it better to be fired outright than to disappear mysteriously like Remy did? Remy was in new Britain last summer, a hitting instructor for the Double-A Britsox. Not even Pawtucket...
...establishing motives and motifs, Dante goes productively crazy. Is Tuck to be stuck in a rabbit? Then there will be hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through...