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Even if we can’t trace precisely when shades of the Animal House ethos emerged at Harvard, we can assume it existed early enough to inspire parts of the film. Co-writer Doug Kenny ’69 is a Harvard alumnus, and if his Spee Club presidency doesn’t scream raucous, perhaps his trademark goof does: legend has it he could put his entire fist in his mouth. Some say that Delta Tau Chi of Animal House is based on a fraternity at Dartmouth, but maybe it’s time to reconsider...
...mood of the time - an ebullient rejection of the preceding conformist, suburban decades. He drew and wrote whatever came into his mind, including fantasies of bizarre sex and physical disintegration, delineated with meticulous strokes of the pen. Visitors to the Whitechapel show, which runs until May 22, can trace the genesis of Fritz the Cat in pencil frames, interspersed with doodles of the large women Crumb adores. Fritz bounces down lovingly detailed streets, speaking in long, melodramatic balloons: "My Gabrielle! That you should deem me worthy of you fills me with an indescribable joy!" Crumb is not above making...
When MTV launched a station in Africa last month, it was something of a homecoming. At least that's the way Bill Roedy, president of MTV Networks International, likes to think of it. Most music, Roedy points out, can trace its roots to Africa, so it's only right that one of music's biggest global brands is finally tapping the motherland. MTV Base, as the African channel is known, is the company's 43rd regional station and, says Roedy, a potential launchpad for African musicians to go global. Not all local artists feel the station's early playlist matches...
...greatest newsstory of all time, the nation's newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout had been posted to trace the bills, plainest warning to the criminals of Col. Lindbergh's countermove...
...place where the most famous villain in history met his maker bears no trace...