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...theme. Hopping freights, stealing food, evading the clutches of adults both well and ill meaning, as she travels from Chicago to Washington State, where her widowed father has been forced to go for work, Natty predictably acquires a furry, four-legged friend. But this is no instantly lovable mutt; it is a full-grown, fang-baring wolf--the fairy-tale villain turned into a saving presence. He makes an apt symbol for a handsome, moral and emotionally satisfying movie that is too strong-minded to settle for those virtues or for easy sentiment and cheap nostalgia...
...characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short, chubby one, look and act like the Mutt and Jeff of Japan. Unlike Mutt and Jeff, however, Charlie and Fred's difficulties are almost exclusively a result of their race. They live as distrusted non-citizens in world that both needs them and reviles them at the same time...
With titles like “Thin Enough to Be Asian” and “Another American Mutt,” the essays clearly cohere around questions of ethnicity and identity in America...
...festivities also included a demonstration with the “Monster Mutt.” Lampoon president Zachary J. Kanin ’05 ordered the truck to crush eggs, copies of The Crimson, a miniature chair, and finally the supposed throne of the Crimson President, which turned out to be a replica of the valuable antique...
...guys from Zeppelin. It’d probably turn into a wrestling match, tag team, with Zeppelin, CCR and Crosby, Stills and Nash, and then I’d add Anthony Kiedis from the Chili Peppers—I don’t know. We’re a mutt. We’re not a pure blood band...