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...needs some exorcise. There are homages aplenty to the old cartoons -- lascivious bulging eyes, deft wordplay (in pig Latin) and that bizarre sound effect that suggests a gargoyle gargling -- and laughs aseveral. The pace lags in spots, but any lulls allow the viewer to savor the glory of full, hand-drawn animation. And Daffy is as raffish as ever, talking like Freud or stalking like Groucho. At the end, three ghostly Shmoos chase Daffy down the street as his exorcised client drawls a warm, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?" Anyone who grew up on Warners cartoons is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daffy's Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...looked like he had just finished his daily lift at the gym and was on his way home to a pasta dinner. I decided that if he could do it, I certainly could. I stepped up after him and chose a psychic reader named Steve from a collage of hand-drawn posters advertising each reader's special focus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Psychic Experience | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...story to any Iranscam investigators, his memorandums are eloquent testimony to the fantastic nature of his activities. Those efforts were both macro and micro: he supervised the raising of millions of dollars in funds from South Korea and Taiwan while organizing numerous drops of munitions in Nicaragua. A hand-drawn chart that was found in North's office safe shows the complex path of money from private fund-raising organizations to various shadowy corporations. The chart suggests a link between two fund-raising organizations run by North's ally, Conservative Carl ("Spitz") Channell, and such corporations as Lake Resources, Udall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Sandinistas decided the best thing to do was to send Sam Hall back home. Two months ago Hall, 49, the brother of Ohio Congressman Tony P. Hall, was arrested outside an air force base near Managua with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: To Miami, With Relief | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...recently resurgent '70s group dedicated to the killing of police officers. The license plate on the abandoned Oldsmobile, for example, led to an apartment in East Orange, N. J. There a six-hour search turned up a cache of weapons and explosives, a manual on making bombs and hand-drawn floor plans of six New York City police stations. In a Bronx apartment, state and federal investigators found a similar arsenal and diagrams, plus a newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullets from the Underground | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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