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...references to the movies of Kurosawa or whatever. Don’t worry about outdoing your friends in East Asian Studies by identifying all the subtle cultural motifs of Pre-Mao cultures of violence or blah blah blah. Just remember what it was like to watch “Looney Tunes” or “Power Rangers”—you laughed when people got hurt in goofy ways, you jumped up and down with excitement when two guys were totally using magic powers against each other, and you ignored the stuff you didn?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Kung Fu Hustle | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...Murder, Inc." Said the President: "The American people are not--repeat, not--going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." The President singled out as assailants the governments of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. Strikingly absent from the list was any mention of Syria, a frequent U.S. nemesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Fingering the Hijackers | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

This afternoon, PTC analyst Kristine Looney is sitting in her cubicle, whose bookshelf holds volumes by Ann Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy. Headphones over her ears, hand on the remote, she is watching the March 13 episode of Crossing Jordan. Suddenly, she hits the pause button. Why? "'Damn,'" she says. "And also they were talking about drugs." Looney, 25, transcribes the quote--"Damn. The second suitcase is still out there"--and it goes into the Entertainment Tracking System (ETS), the PTC's database on more than 100,000 hours of programming. "We track even those minor swears," says Looney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...same time, I love hanging around kids,” says Williamson, a self-proclaimed “goofball” whose inner child emerges in a love for video games, Looney Tunes and Spongebob Squarepants. “I hang around my little cousins all the time and I really enjoy time with them, so being a pediatrician is another interest of mine...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brains and Brawn | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...Weezer— serious classical works alongside jazz, show tunes, rock arrangements, and silent film and movie scores. We encourage student work, and do anything that’s fun and zany. Tonight’s concert, “Tooney Tunes,” features music from Looney Tunes, Disney, and beyond...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Mark E. Goldin ’05 | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

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