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...what did the granddaddy of left-wing ideology, Karl Marx have to say on this issue? In his communist utopia, man could “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon [and] rear cattle in the evening.” Sounds like a pretty darn good life to me, and something tells me they wouldn’t be hunting tofu...
...post-modernist pastiche" of the ubiquitous Greco-Roman style? Or is it just rubbish, like so much urban Thai architecture? Sometimes, too, the urge to be exhaustive is just plain exhausting, although future social historians will thank Cornwel-Smith for recording how you toughen up a Siamese fighting fish before a bout. (Rather meanly, you "just stir the water.") Encyclopedic in scope, Very Thai is an unapologetic celebration of both the exotic and the everyday, and an affectionate reminder in these flag-waving times that perhaps Thais care less for state-mandated notions of national identity than their politicians think...
...have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with Ice Age, is offering the busy, fizzy Robots...
Schier specifically looks at the genetics of mutant zebrafish, studying what genes are missing in the mutant fish and seeking to relate these genes to particular functions...
...such entertainments at the time, Lulu's stories feel timeless rather than dated. If anything the success of "Little Lulu" derives from its minimized universe. John Stanley excels at creating absurdly funny situations out of the simplest devices. One silly story involves the repeated swapping of a stuffed, mounted fish back and forth in exchange for a present for Lulu's pop, a genuine civil war cannonball, a present he has no interest in anyway. The sharp writing often takes you by surprise. The "Bank Robbery" strip has Lulu convinced that Tubby is spending her ill-gotten piggy bank money...