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There are a few generalizations to be made about anime. The characters' faces often have the preposterously chiseled look of Western superheroes, as defined by U.S. pulp illustrators. The animation itself is quite limited: when a mouth moves, the rest of the face stays still, stricken. You won't find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Wait a minute. Why should the most successful filmmaker in history subject himself to these dicta, jotted down in half an hour by a couple of daffy Danes? Why would any director toss away the tools of power and sorcery that the movies have spent a century developing? No 150...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Putting on the Dogme | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Are Republicans so politically bankrupt that the best they can do is shovel money to a man who has less foreign-policy experience than Daffy Duck? KARL H. BREVIK Palm Desert, Calif.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Things get complicated when stupidity and conspiracy go into business together--as they like to do. Remember the Watergate plots hatched in the White House basement: Nixon's "plumbers" had the low cunning of Daffy Duck thinking hard. Impressive: an entire Administration brought down by an immense yet pissant doofusness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Stupidity, Stupid | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

One difference is that bees in the hive are ruthlessly serious about work--even, in a daffy Darwinian way, the drones, which, in any case, pay dearly for their sexual pleasures. They die as they ejaculate, killed by the queen, who merely requires their sperm. Their function fulfilled, they die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys and the Bees | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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