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...many SNAFU cartoons, vigilance - a kind of protective paranoia - is the motto. "Spies" (directed by Jones for an August 1943 release) darkly suggests that German and Japanese agents lurk everywhere: in a baby carriage, a mailbox, a street lamp, a drain, a horse's head, inside a telephone. The antlers of two moose-head trophies, of the kind Geisel used for his Schaefer Beer ad, merge to form a swastika. A luscious babe SNAFU meets at a bar is seen noting his indiscretions on a tiny typewriter under the table; another babe's breasts are tape-recorder reels emblazoned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...checkpoint, a young boy approached Aaron’s truck with an AK-47 in his hands. The child pointed the assault rifle at Aaron and Aaron shot the child in the head. He bluntly stated that morality was not a factor in his life anymore: his motto was “kill to live...

Author: By Henry I. Stern, | Title: Vacation in Baghdad | 2/25/2004 | See Source »

...poster hanging from the basement wall screams the slated motto for the College’s new campaign against crime: “Safety starts with...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts and Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Strikes Back | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

...CHARLIE MCCARTY, 88, innovative photojournalist and founder of Reuters News Pictures Service; in Uccle, Belgium. McCarty, who started out as a photographer in San Francisco for a forerunner of United Press International, helped pioneer newspaper use of 35-mm cameras as the United Press photo editor in Dallas. His motto was "Hard work never hurt anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

SHAGADELIC LOVEFEST If it feels good, do it. That seems to be the motto of the bonobos, whose same-and opposite-sex coupling seems as casual as a Hollywood air kiss and can include oral sex, French kissing and the missionary position. For these chimplike apes, sex serves as all-purpose social lubricant. Dolphins have no such excuses for their kinky behavior: they sometimes try to mate with sea turtles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animal Attraction | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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