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...Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part zoo, the film's milieu is a nice metaphor for the rudderless morals of post-Everything Europe. Writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 30, 1992 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

PARADES IN NEW YORK City are always an extravagant affair--from ticker tape parades for astronauts to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring every cartoon character from Betty Boop to a Mutant Ninja Turtle...

Author: By Godffrey S. Williams, | Title: Blarney From the Hibernians | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

...know whether this was created byan art fan or a Mutant Ninja "Turtle fan, butI assume the latter, because he playdoesn't watch much PBS," gomery said

Author: By William C. Slaughter, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Michelangelo Virus To Wreak Havoc Today | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

Over the years the two peoples accomplished a cultural convergence after all: they met on the hard, bright surfaces of consumerism. But in each other's minds they remained mutually uncomprehending presences, like mythic cartoons, action figures: G.I. Joes, Mutant Ninja cultures. They tended to caricature each other, always getting things just a little off. That was all right as long as admiration and deference remained the organizing principles, as long as nervous laughter and bowing smoothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Near a cluster of market stalls, vendors lay out their wares on blankets. The air fills with the sound of vendors whistling. Sunglasses, umbrellas, posters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle dolls are hurriedly scooped into the blankets. The side walks empty as the vendors pack up and run enmasse from the pacoa, the military police, who are attempting to round up these unlicensed entrepeneurs or pololos...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: A Black Mark (et) | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

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