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...weakest short in the festival is "Carrotblanca," made in 1995. Compared with the other "classic" cartoons, this "Casablanca" parody is tame, functioning more as a showcase of characters than as a pure comedy. The animators were so busy trying to maximize the cartoon's appeal by working everyone--Bugs, Sylvester, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, People Pew and the others--into a tenminute short that the gags are neglected...
...then there are the dream sequences: a fairly tame but eerie sexual fantasy near the beginning; and later, a dream involving a series of black and white images, beginning like an early '20s film reel but dissolving into even more dreamlike images of whispering lips and a hand gripping Isabel's waist--first clothed, then naked...
...they get older. Experience often proves that self-interest is counter-productive. Even the snootiest suburban teenagers eventually get the hint and start paying attention to others around them. Of course, most adolescents are not that bad to begin with. They may be consumers, but this evil seems fairly tame in an age of gang violence and street crime. Besides, according to all of our recently disappointed supply siders, it is the money of kids like these that keeps our economy going...
...controversial review of previous data finds that an ABORTION may slightly raise a woman's risk of breast cancer. Early in pregnancy, breast cells grow rapidly, but by the third trimester, hormones kick in to tame them. Researchers suspect that after an abortion, the breast is left with cells that could grow out of control--and become cancerous...
...could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P. primary electorate dominates the nominating process. On the other hand, the prospect of two moderates, Kemp and Colin Powell, battling the likes of Pat Buchanan could make the 1960s struggle for the party's soul seem tame by comparison...