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Garfield Takes a Crap, by Jim Davis. The next in the seemingly never-ending series of books about cats, cartoon characters, things that eat a lot, or all of the above. In this novella, Garfield finally has to clean himself of all the food he has eaten over the last nine years. Scatological is the word...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

...came close enough by demanding to know whether the inquiry was a legitimate campaign issue. Many of the candidates danced around this hand grenade, waiting for it to become yesterday's news. "The debate," said Richard Gephardt's campaign manager William Carrick, "is going through an awkward phase, a cartoon phase." But even if the sex angle goes stale, candidates will have to spend considerable time on broader ethical issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of the Righteous Brothers | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...natural and dreadful culmination of Elvis' attitude towards women came in his final slide, a cartoon of a naked woman pinned under a clothed man. None of her limbs were free; she was helpless. The scene looked, in fact, like a rape. Above this rape a sign bore the word "think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elvis, Nudity: Good Taste? | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...true Moliere fashion, none of Arnolphe's carefully laid-out schemes work, and the chaos that ensues has only been matched these days by the best of Blake Edwards' movies. Sagal takes considerable liberties with the script, further fleshing out Moliere's humor. Scenes take on a cartoon-like quality in the spirit of Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes. At times, Oleson becomes an Elmer Fudd buffoon. He stumbles over tree stumps and brings out an armory of weapons to battle his imagined enemies, looking ridiculously anachronistic in a World War I helmet...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: The School for Wives | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...form of racial McCarthyism, but to acknowledge a real problem that we all must try to deal with. Name-calling, character assassination, and tying partisan politics up with issues that are fundamentally more important only degrade the effort to combat racial bigotry. By feeding these divisive fires, Boyd's cartoon only makes the problem worse. Christopher A. Ford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

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