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...STINKY CHEESE MAN by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16). It was inevitable: revisionism has come to children's literature. In this collection the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, Cinderella's sisters win, and the frog prince croaks.The comedy depends on a knowledge of the original , stories; given that, the pictures are obvious and excessive. In other words, ideal kid stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid-Lit Capers | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...Rabbit Frog...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Endpaper | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

Elvis has been sighted in the new edition of Bartlett's venerable Familiar Quotations, along with Monty Python, Chuck Berry and Kermit the Frog. But to make room for pop culture, general editor Justin Kaplan had to drop a few dead poets and philosophers. All told, 340 contributors were added and 245 removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany Roll Over Beethoven | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...liberalism, environmentalism, Hollywood, and for old time's sake he hits on Mikhail Gorbachev.) He has an audiocassette of the book -- the ideal way to get through the tome, since Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper stickers. In salesmanship as in showmanship, he's a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...EASY TO CONNECT people to the Panda or the American Eagle. The important thing is that we expand our circle of awareness and affection and love for the rest of organisms. We're beginning to have some affection for and concern for the fate of frog species and salamander species. In Europe already, the public is increasingly concerned about butterflies, beetles and the like. I don't mean to say that one will ever consider the giant American Burying beetle, which lives on the decaying corpses of rats and mice, as a cuddly organism like the panda. Nonetheless, there...

Author: By David ERIK Geist, | Title: Whither Biodiversity? | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

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