Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ecologists have been working for years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...
...like to be privy to everyone else's weird thoughts and ways of looking at things," says Cooperson, in explanation of his love of languages. A tangential interest is drawing--in particular creating cartoons--again reflecting his sense of the offbeat. Last year he helped put together a cartoon book, and he has done the graphics for several of the house T-shirts. Cooperson jokingly traces this interest in the unusual back to his hometown: Wilmington, Delaware. "It's so small and American. I needed the exotic...
...been getting play in the Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...
Casper the Friendly Ghost is an amiable, almost cherubic-looking cartoon character. But his creator, Harvey Publications, felt downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...
Last week a U.S. district court dismissed the suit. "There are only very limited ways to draw the figure of a cartoon ghost," said Judge Peter Leisure. But the ghost could come back to haunt another judge because Harvey may appeal the ruling...