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...finish the film's sentence "Born under Venus, look for a..." In the catchy newborn nursery anthem This World Is Something New to Me, kids may understand the line "This world is such a gas!" followed by an impolite noise, and the baleful "I can barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between a female voice ("Man, they cut my cord!") and a male ("Awww, consider yourself lucky"). Side benefit of taking your kids to the movie: it was probably time to explain the miracle of circumcision to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Rugrats Rule? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

There are adults who, through choice or parental servitude, have learned to love the TV show. It seems to understand the baby imperatives (either suck on a bottle or break out of the playpen and scope out the great wide world) while treating the grownup figures with the same genial ribbing the kids get. Tommy the explorer and Chuckie, his friend with the orange shock top and a chronically fretful nature, are attractive opposites; three-year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Rugrats Rule? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...outcast. Part of me keeps reminding myself that I wouldn't want to go to the dance with a boy that didn't like me for who I am, but it gets kind of depressing staying home and dancing with my younger brother. Do you think I should just suck it up and get it? Does that mean I am superficial? Will I lose all my character? What do I do? Love, Shnoz from...

Author: By Zoe Tanenbaum, | Title: YOU DID WHAT?! | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...wuss out-suck it up and put on the pounds. You'll be warmer, fuller andmore. In the famous words of Spinal Tap, "The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: let them eat cake | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...face flushed even more and I tried to, like, wipe off with my T-shirt but this just messed up my mascara and made things worse. Totally humiliated, because he was obviously one of those people who looks *good* when he sweats, I decided just to suck up my pride and say hi when he passed. But, just as he was passing, I glanced down and realized that I had just gotten my period--in a big way! I was so embarrassed that I let out a huge, wet, smelly fart. He looked so disgusted and hasn't been nearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh My God--I'm Sooo Embarrassed!!! | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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