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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Done,’ and two minutes later, we’re smashing,” Howell says.“Smashing,” in this case, doesn’t refer to drinking games or car windows; it’s their code for playing the cartoonish Nintendo 64 multiplayer fighting classic “Super Smash Brothers.” It’s become a phenomenon in Weld Hall—they estimate that some 24 other students “smash” with them regularly and claim they play the game for at least...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gaming: Better Than Talking? | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...than oversell the absurdity of the scene, he lets it unfurl without commentary. Clichéd declarations like “No Blood For Oil,” “Bush Lied and People Died,” etc., are mercifully absent from the film. By avoiding these cartoonish histrionics, Jarecki distinguishes himself from the likes of Michael Moore—to whom he is often unfairly compared...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why We Fight | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...ones focused on monuments to the "Dear Leader." Though it lacks the deep cultural penetration of some other memoirs, like Marjane Satrapri's Persepolis series and Joe Sacco's Balkan War books, Pyongyang provides a cartoon corrective to a place that too often gets characterized in "cartoonish" ways. From Ming to Kim 9/23/2005

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Comix | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...attend the ceremony, of course, although his specter will loom large: Almost 27 years after the death of troubled bass player Sid Vicious (initially recruited to replace songwriter Matlock, allegedly booted for being a fan of the Beatles), the image of the lanky youth notorious for his cartoonish depravity, drug-abuse and violence, which became the sartorial prototype for punk rock, still dwarfs the band's actual accomplishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Rotten in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame? | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...Branded has several broad brushes, a bucket of the watery adhesive called wheat paste and a stack of his trademark cartoonish bunny posters. His first target is a utility box on La Brea. With a friend stationed nearby to watch for police, Branded, 30, brushes a layer of paste on the box and slaps up the poster. Then he whips open his cell phone, snaps a picture and e-mails the shot to flickr.com a photo website on which artists post their work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takin' It To The Streets | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

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