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...smitten. So I looked up Julia's creator, Michael Mauldin, who told me that he built the "chatterbot" in 1990 to reside in the virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although...
...heart of Citizen Soldier is with Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin's famous editorial-cartoon dogfaces. Today they would be well into their 70s, if the Lucky Strikes and Spam didn't do them in. They would probably be bypassed in more ways than one. But they won't be forgotten as long as citizen-scholar Ambrose keeps his desk...
Alas, there's a story to slog through: how the preacher must learn to trust his own and his parishioners' best instincts. And that means, in the script by Nat Mauldin and Allan Scott, endless scenes of perfunctory angst. Vance, who has more screen time than either of the big stars, is required to play it slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience...
Their chance comes in the Ardennes during mid-December 1944. The unit is ordered to establish an observation post in a deserted château deep in the forest. It is as if Hansel and Gretel had been illustrated by Bill Mauldin. Tired, cold and filthy, the band enters a zone of ominous enchantment. From behind trees and bushes, German soldiers call out greetings, offer whisky and good wishes for a sound sleep. They throw snowballs, not grenades; they return lost equipment and finally leave the perplexed G.I.s a Christmas tree decorated with candles, apples and potatoes...
...general purpose, and hence Jeep) that could growl through rivers of mud and over impossible obstacles. General George C. Marshall called the Jeep "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare," and the infantry man developed a love affair with his Jeep that was sketched by Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in his Willie and Joe series...