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...Harvard Crimson, Albert Einstein’s head is pasted onto the emaciated, half-naked body on an anonymous woman in a cartoon by a Maxim “artist” presenting his ideal Harvard president. Free exchange of ideas...
...that such speech is legal, but that members of my community traffick in hate speech. Fortunately, we can all rest easy that Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner do not carry such garbage. How would you feel if the newsstand on the corner sold a cartoon called “Chester the Molester,” in which a young Jewish girl is lured by a dollar bill attached to a string to the erect penis of an elderly man? I would feel shocked and outraged; I do feel shocked and outraged, because Chester the Molester...
...screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay and the inspired bedlam of guitar-case rocket launchers. Rodriguez's tongue-in-cheek, violence-as-cartoon mentality was pushed to an even higher level in the Tarantino-scripted vampire caper From Dusk Till Dawn, which, in its own eternally trashy way, transformed the manic carnage of B-grade horror bloodbaths into high art. Throw in the effects-laden thrills of the teen horror opus The Faculty...
...overall effect was something like watching a three-hour cartoon, which only made the impact of Die Zauberflöte’s idealistic vision more powerful. This opera is, after all, a fairy tale—albeit a bizarre one full of Masonic rituals and Egyptian gods. And like all fairy tales, Die Zauberflöte seeks to teach us a moral. Its particular lesson—the transformative power of brotherhood and love—would lose much of its force if we forgot, even for a minute, that what we are watching is markedly not the world...
There was an interesting mistake in a recent Comeuppance (Cartoons, Mar. 15). The hunter depicted in the cartoon would be lucky to bag anything (including his dog) given the way he holds his rifle...