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...within, or diagrams of their anatomies. Instead, all the exhausted office worker needs to do is look at the pretty creatures swimming by. Even the adjacent roller coaster betrays a generation bias, drawing inspiration from Galaxy Express 999, a 1970s manga that Japanese adults remember nostalgically but not a cartoon their children would watch. The Epson Aqua Stadium is generally open from noon until 10 p.m. nightly - long after the little ones...
...troubles in the magazine’s Feb. 14 issue, just a month into the controversy. Three female professors were drawn sitting in a campus cafeteria—the caption: “I hear we’re all getting valentines from Lawrence Summers.” Another cartoon, on the cover of the peachy New York Observer on March 28, depicted a baby Summers in a caldron of boiling water above the headline, “Why Summers Simmers...
...have looked at that. We haven't been able to figure out if it makes economic sense. There are a lot of things you can do with technology, but whether it's a business is a separate question. There was a cartoon, I think in the New Yorker magazine, of two young computer geeks, and one was holding a newspaper, and he turned to the other and said, "Look at this new invention. Somebody has downloaded the whole page into a user-friendly format." It's a wonderful cartoon...
Hollywood, like McDonald's, knows it's just good business to hook the customers when they're young. So when school's out, studios push their cinematic Happy Meals: cartoon fare like last summer's Shrek 2, which proved to be the top-grossing film of 2004. And since the wee ones don't buy their own tickets, filmmakers try to insert enough wit and sass and retro references to keep the grownups amused. A children's movie, never forget, is an all-family baby-sitting device...
Eons ago, Walt Disney cornered this market with cartoon features that comforted parents and scared kids with the same implied admonition: Get home before dark. Pinocchio, Bambi and Dumbo, for all their craft and wonder, were essentially horror films that exploited the separation anxiety that children felt on their first day of school. The noise you heard back then from kids in the theater was a primal scream...