Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote in the dust...
...dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis of how well they imitate life, but on how well they imitate the genre's ideal form--a Road Runner cartoon...
...editorial cartoon run in The Crimson on April 30, 1986, was a tasteless guffaw at the expense of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Donahue's cartoon, for the benefit of those who missed it, portrays a chagrined bear (emblazoned with a hammer and sickle) losing his fur while a nuclear power plant explodes in the backround. Viewing the Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples...
...have involved his uncanny ability to get back down into the wild mind of a child. Cosby made his comedy mark by relating the foibles of his Philadelphia youth on hit albums like 1965's Why Is There Air? In the '70s, he turned Fat Albert into a Saturday cartoon series, and his kiddie- conscious commercials for big-time sponsors like Jell-O helped earn him one of the ad world's highest Q (positive-recognition quotient) ratings, a rank he still holds. In his first solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only...
...doing and their enthusiasm is contagious. That's fortunate--because by no means do Biggs and company produce a visually or verbally exciting show. The sets and costumes aren't much, the choreography is just sufficient and the jokes are familiar to those who've seen either the cartoon or the animated specials before...