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...behind the takeoff board, farther than any competitor. Forward velocity-not height-makes for distance, believes Tellez, and Lewis defies gravity by continuing to run almost straight off into the air, pedaling furiously for balance, not unlike Wile E. Coyote going off a cliff in a Road Runner cartoon. "It's my best attribute," he says. "In basketball I could hang up there and triple pump." As a sprinter, he also has uncanny staying power. "Everybody," he says, "decelerates from about 60 meters to the finish line-everybody." But Lewis, relaxed and controlled, decelerates least and inexorably pulls ahead...
...Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four-part feature that takes Serling's moral tales into a new dimension: the second, where images and characters are as crisp, bright and fiat as those in a Chuck Jones cartoon...
...episode (from It's a Good Life, aired in 1961) turns the Spielberg ethic on its head and finally gets the movie moving with spooky style. Jeremy Licht plays a boy with monstrous powers, who corrals an ersatz family and bends them to his infantile wishes. In this cartoon nightmare, giant skinned rabbits pop out of hats, and people who talk back have their mouths erased. Like the best Twilight Zone originals, Dante's horror-comic homily provides an oblique moral: youth must not be served, at least not peanut-butter burgers on a paper plate...
Speaking before an enthusiastic Class Day audience, Doonesbury cartoon creator Garry Trudeau yesterday called members of the Class of 1983 part of the "disco preppy generation...
During a brief visit in the newspaper's Plympton St. offices after his address. Trudeau padded The Crimson's Comment Book with a sketch of his cartoon's namesake. Mike Doonesbury, who has been out of public view since Trudeau began his 18-months break in January...