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...last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like it or not, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Brother's Keeper | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...brings new meaning to the expression, "man with a Godcomplex." The story is inspired in part by the Greek legend of Amphitryon, whose body Zeus inhabited to seduce Amphitryon's wife. In the Godard version, God, a presence with a terrifying, gravelly voice straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon, decides to manifest Himself in the guise of ordinary Simon Donnadieu, played by ubiquitous French film star Gerard Depardieu. (Donnadieu means "given to God," and Depardieu means "on behalf of God," Get it?). Simon starts using "thine" and "thou" in conversation, much to the astonishment of his wife, Rachel (Laurence...

Author: By Rachel E. Silverman, | Title: 'Helas' for the Audience | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

...disturbed by the content of what Conley intends (I assume) to say in his cartoon, but by the meaning contained in the images of over-slanted eyes and buckteeth. Perhaps Conley meant only to capture the Chinese face, as he perceives it. Even if this is so, however, he misses out on the negative semiological connotation not of the Chinese face itself, but of the Chinese face portrayed in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conley Employs Stereotypes | 11/30/1994 | See Source »

There was a Cartoon Shaq (wearing something that looked vaguely similar to his Orlando Magic uniform) jumping around, shooting unexplained energy blasts--a sort of Mortal Shaqbat...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: What The Shaq? | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

...offered residents free installation of a 36-in. receiving dish and two months of free service. Ninety of the town's 133 families signed up, and in one weekend Arietta went from snowy images of Murder, She Wrote to a crystal-clear cornucopia of everything from cnn and the Cartoon Network to round-the-clock movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Town That Television Forgot | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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