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...cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a dozen other barnyard thespians, were the star attractions of countless children's Saturday afternoons--and internal lives. But Chuck Jones' Warner Bros. cartoons were more than kid stuff, as we realized long before their creator's death last week, at 89, of congestive heart failure. "We weren't making them for kids or for adults," he often said. "We were making them for ourselves." And, a grateful viewer has to say, for the best part of ourselves...
...Jones joined the cheerful gang of animator-anarchists at Termite Terrace, as the Warner Bros. cartoonists called their dilapidated digs. He directed his first short, The Night Watchman, in 1938. But it took a wartime assignment to bring out the comic fatalist in Jones. With Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, he hatched the Private Snafu shorts--irreverent sketches of an Army recruit whose laziness and general bad attitude forever threaten to hand victory to Hitler and Tojo. By war's end, Jones was infusing the brisk sauciness of these cartoons into his civilian work...
...Beland's drawing style enhances the light and happy tone. Rendered in black and white, his fat lines are all soft curves that form simple but recognizable caricatures. The expressive figures have an animated look that may remind you of Warner Brothers cartoons. The eyebrows float around the character's heads like caterpillars dangling from invisible threads. Beland also keeps the layouts nicely varied but always easy to read...
...series--some of them, like the one in which Samantha tries to seduce a priest, repeatedly. But unlike most people, who pay an extra $13 a month on their cable bills to get HBO, which carries the show (and is owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner), Chaplin gets her Sex and the City free. Using a program called Morpheus, she goes online and downloads any episode she wants in as little as 10 minutes. Then she watches her haul on the computer. "I know it's not legal," the college sophomore says, "but it's easier...
...casting process, Steel Dynamics produces flat-rolled sheet coils for $50 to $100 less per ton than its integrated competitors. Last year output per employee was $1.1 million, vs. about $254,000 at Bethlehem. "A lot of high-tech companies don't have our revenues per employee," says Fred Warner, investor-relations manager at Steel Dynamics. And analysts say the minis' market share would probably rise even faster if imports were curtailed. "The minis will expand again with higher prices," says Robert Crandall, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Over time they will take over most product lines...