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...literary companions Babar, Bugs Bunny and the Little Prince (and a lot of junk that I have elevated to the pop-cultural Pantheon in this column). I'm glad that Cohen has honored Geisel as a full-service wit: the humor-magazine work, the political cartoons, his cunning ad campaigns and Ted's creation of one of the most enduring, least endearing antiheroes in Hollywood cartoon history. What follows comes from studying the Cohen book, rerunning my favorites from Geisel's mid-period film work, and watching Peter Jones' excellent two-hour special for A&E's "Biography," which contains...
...girls picking on boys? Since December, radio talk-show host and men's-rights activist Glenn Sacks has rallied followers to target a division of the David & Goliath line of clothing, which Sacks claims is antiboy. One T shirt features a cartoon image of a boy running from flying rocks, with text that reads, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" Some stores, including Bon-Macy's, have pulled the shirts. "They are part of a larger trend of male and father bashing," says Sacks. "Stopping the sale of these shirts is an initial blow to the boy-bashing culture...
...snowy weekend, causing Mac to see swirling ash for a moment. Craig dreams of HAZMAT-suited real estate agents in SOHO. Neil has to keep the news on all the time because he says, "I don't want to be the last person in the city, watching the cartoon channel, while everybody else's being evacuated." Inwardly disturbed but outwardly cool, 9/11 New York becomes a metaphor for the lives of the four friends...
Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...
...hawks who fear that missteps in Iraq may tie the President's hands everywhere else. Fiscal conservatives see red at all the red ink, libertarians twitch at each new intrusion into personal liberty, and all see a Democratic Party fiercely uniting behind a plausible candidate instead of the choleric cartoon they had been counting...