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...Hirohito has been spotted in a Mickey Mouse wristwatch, and for 21 years the Mitsubishi Bank has treated new customers to Mickey towels, tissue paper and toothpaste, even Mickey piggy banks. Lately, the round-eared rodent has been challenged across the globe by snappy, snippy Snoopy and indolent, insolent Garfield. But the animated 58- year-old is still reigning over cats and dogs...
...culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except perhaps for Roman Catholicism, no other Western cultural genus has been as inclusive as modern pop, so truly classless. Indeed, says Fiedler, Nikes and Garfield T shirts are class camouflage. "One of the functions of pop culture," Fiedler says, "is to make it impossible to spot where a person belongs on the social hierarchy by what he's wearing, what he's drinking, what he's watching...
...skulls were found last month by a Harvard summer school student and Cambridge resident near the corner of Mass Ave. and Garfield...
...which has captured an estimated 10% share, up from 5% in 1978. Gibson scored a coup in February by striking a deal with Walt Disney Productions for the rights to use Mickey Mouse and his friends, who had previously been featured on Hallmark cards. Gibson has also signed up Garfield the Cat and the Sesame Street characters, but Hallmark's line of Peanuts cards is still one of the industry's most successful. American Greetings got a boost last year by reaching an agreement with Sears to be the exclusive card seller in all its department stores. That more than...
...largely ignored. To get federal support for building the Union Pacific Railroad at vastly inflated costs, the Credit Mobilier conspirators handed out bargain-priced stocks to more than a score of Congressmen, including future President James Garfield and future Secretary of State James Blaine...