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Amid the latest hoo-ha and brouhaha about toxic culture, a media maven is led to wonder: Has Bob Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...
...that. "Pocahontas," a handsome, deeply-felt animated Disney musical, is a good one. Though the film has drawn fire from critics who say it is not historically accurate, and praise from others for its sympathetic portrayal of American Indians, both sides are missing the point. It's just a cartoon, for gosh sakes, a familiar boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story. And a well done story at that, says Corliss, "a film romance that earns a place of honor among Disney's latter-day animated film stunners...
Emerging from Harvard's hall of mirrors, I sense a bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...
...Cartoon that ran in August 1944 featured aswab crying because he didn't have a girl to comehome to. When he says all he has is $5,000 in warbonds, buxom women surround...
...another cartoon, the punch line is "Dames? Itreat 'em like War Bonds. I get a new one everymonth...