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...junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until the whole thing sounded the way Fibber McGee's closet clattered, the way a Tex Avery cartoon looks, the way Bart Simpson's mind works...
While pundits coined the term "Teflon president" to describe former President Ronald W. Reagan's ability to emerge untouched by potential problems, Barrett has invoked the cartoon character Mr. Magoo to make a similar point about Weld...
...political operatives are pretty good at damage control, so he passes from crisis--like the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo--oblivious, and he escapes unscathed," said Barrett at his campaign kickoff. "But he escapes leaving disaster in his wake for the people of Massachusetts...
...Manitoba Woman," the cartoon creation of a Matthews dormmate, first appeared on Prabhu's campaign posters in the Southwest Yard. She was a superheroine, whose chest was emblazoned with an "M" (for both "Maya" and "Manitoba.") For a time, Prabhu says, people would call her to ask where Manitoba was. They knew, at least, who Maya Prabhu was--she came in second in the Southwest race, winning herself a council seat...
...think the faculty gave a damn in 1969 about the cartoon of an Afro-Am department," Daniels says...