Word: ithe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titles as Porky in Wackyland (Clampett), Show Biz Bugs (Freleng), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones), What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) and Duck Amuck (glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide not so innocent delight for another millennium or so of children. The rest of us can find our wicked frissons in Warner's cartoon art and laugh hysterically...
...rumors. But these separate regions have become united in a single problem: the birth rate among humans and animals has fallen off; a sense of sadness and stagnation envelops the lands. So the Providers who administer the galaxy issue an order that no one can refuse. Al∙Ith, the Queen of Zone Three, must marry Ben Ata, the warlike King of Zone Four...
Those who look for a feminist parable to begin at this point will be disap pointed. It is true that Al∙Ith is superior to Ben Ata; love between them cannot be achieved until he climbs and she falls. Yet Lessing's narrative imbues this war between the sexes with an urgent purpose, nothing else than the regeneration of life...
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality as frightful to her as it is exhilarating...