Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the Statue of Liberty says "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore," she asks for underdogs. Horatio Alger, Class of 1852, spent his life writing about underdogs. And then there's "The Underdog Show," a cartoon that first appeared in the late 1960s, in which the lowest of the low (Shoeshine Boy) transforms into an unlikely superhero--a small, cute, furry dog who spends his time, as the memorable theme song goes, "fighting those who rob and plunder" with "speed of lightning, roar of thunder...
...helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
...What is your favorite cartoon character...
www.buchanan2000.com: I started here because, well, it seemed like a natural name for the campaign website. It seems the anti-Buchananites got there first, though, since I was greeted with an ominous red-and-blue "Whose populism is it anyway?" and a cute cartoon of Buchanan holding a baseball bat with a nail in it standing behind a barbed-wire-protected border. The rest of the site listed controversial Buchanan statements on civil rights, Jews, women, etc. Clearly not something the campaign would have put together...
...rights wacko," in the view of Rush Limbaugh. Wise has spent 20 years standing up in court for deer, cats, bald eagles, dolphins, assorted primates and other beleaguered species. It is a profession that Wise, who has a gift for comedy, finds amusing. In his study hangs a favorite cartoon, of a dog raising his right paw to take the oath in court, and the caption: "Rover v. Wade...