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In Literature and Arts B-85: "American Musicals and American Culture," which we recommended yesterday, the class watched several videos of the song "I'm Just Wild about Harry" performed by different people throughout the early decades of the 20th century. The final video was of Daffy Duck singing a...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day Three: Easy Fourths | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

Say this for Avatar: it has passion and ambition and a daffy, almost heroic, dead seriousness. Which is to say it's one megabudget Hollywood epic that feels as if it was made by a human, not assembled by cyborgs. Maybe some of the folks paying inflated prices for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office 2009: A Very Good Year | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

Animated feature is the official name these days, but the old tag cartoon suits the sort of CGI movie - your Shrek, your Ice Age - that goes for big laughs extracted from outlandish situations. Nothing wrong with that; cartoon comedy is an honorable, entertaining and often artful confection and has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: A Hit from the Creator of Spirited Away? | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Colin Firth plays John's father Jim, a sardonic, kindly and unkempt World War I vet who dallied with French whores at war's end before being fetched home. John's daffy older sister Marion (Katherine Parkinson, whose voice is as treacherously sweet as cotton candy) is halfway to becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Shakes Up the Brits | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

We think of ducks having personalities. You've got Donald Duck. You've got Daffy Duck. You've got the Aflac duck. We think they're spunky little animals and we like them. And the method to produce foie gras is vivid and sounds incredibly unpleasant. Imagine if somebody put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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