Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Disney was particularly fond of France. In 1918, when he was 17, Disney lived in Paris while working as a Red Cross ambulance driver. His cartoon creations were a hit in France from the beginning. Generations of French children have grown up with Mickey, Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey) and the other Disney characters, and French tourists by the thousands visit the American Disney parks in California and Florida every year. While anti- Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse...
...typical Kidpix program might include a Bugs Bunny cartoon, a Three Stooges short and a film like Ninja the Wonderboy. Adelman, who hopes to franchise Kidpix into a 400-theater chain, has encountered only one problem: parents get so wrapped up in shopping that they forget about Junior. Adelman is considering putting a two-hour time limit on the video baby sitter...
...titans have helped stimulate that growth by becoming more marketing-minded. They now invent fanciful personalities for their toys, design cartoon shows to promote them and produce endless follow-up products to keep children coming back for more. The companies aim to make their toys into celebrities so that children will accept no substitutes. The strategy is working. Youngsters now pick out their playthings with the fussiness of a young professional shopping for his or her first Saab. "They are smart kids growing up very fast," says Polly Hallett, marketing director for Fisher- Price toys...
That story was so big that I wasn't even mad that Jones had disturbed my daily hour with my cartoon friends. That one toss of an uncirculated 1946 half dollar (the NBA was established in that year) gave the Blazers the right to draft a guy by the name of Bill Walton out of UCLA...
...normal level of participation. Rocky is by now starting to punish the seemingly invincible Drago, and various cries of "Kill him!" escape from alleged human beings. Rocky (and Stallone), I think, is no longer "da bum from Philly who don't talk too good." The audience really believes this cartoon of men named after Greek myths who have superhuman strengths and superhuman purposes. Stallone/Rocky no longer plays the aspiring Sigfried. He is no Wotan himself entering the Valhalla of mass popularity...