Word: wabbit
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...Animal Collective: “Who Could Win a Rabbit” - “Wabbit or habit, habit or real. Wabbit or habit, habit or real...
...Long-Haired Hare,? ?Yankee Doodle Daffy,? ?Duck Amuck,? ?Wabbit Twouble,? ?Fast and Furry-ous,? ?Feed the Kitty.? These titles of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the 40s and 50s don?t sound like the names of enduring works of cinematic art. But they are, as surely as Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng were among the great comedy directors; as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, ?Looney Tunes Golden Collection,? the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored...
Long-Haired Hare, Yankee Doodle Daffy, Duck Amuck, Wabbit Twouble, Fast and Furry-ous, Feed the Kitty. These titles, of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the '40s and '50s, may not sound like those of enduring works of cinematic art, but they are--as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, Looney Tunes Golden Collection ($64.92), the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored. Any fan can argue with the choices (Why not more Bob Clampett stuff? Where is Tex Avery...
When most Americans think of opera, they conjure up a stereotype drawn from the characterization of sitcoms and a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which Elmer Fudd sings, “Kill the wabbit!” to the rune of Wagner. In this take on opera, large-breasted women dressed in Viking helmets sing for hours on end about being German, just like a good Romanticist should. The Early Music Society’s production of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell presents an alternative vision: the opera is short, Baroque and in English. Moreover, stage director John Driscoll...
...seems primitive and, in its way, hilarious that the Americans and Chinese should be stuck at the equivalent of Bugs and Daffy's "Duck Season! Wabbit Season!" - a stalemated schoolyard argument. You will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...