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...noticeably absent in Miami. Suarez, 34, a wealthy attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city commission, openly appealed to the Cuban hunger for political control of the city. Little Havana was plastered with signs for "nuestro alcalde" (our mayor), and one particularly crude political cartoon distributed by Suarez's organization portrayed Ferre in a phone booth talking to Fidel Castro. Cuban radio stations conveyed the message that "no one but a Cuban is pro-American enough for our interests...
...also furious at the French for selling five Super Etendard fighter-bombers to Iraq, with which Iran is at war. President Sayed Ali Khamene'i and Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi have vowed "retribution" against the U.S. and France. The Iranian newspaper Ettela'at published a cartoon depicting Uncle Sam and French President Mitterrand being crushed to death by a huge hand bearing the legend "Lebanese Muslims...
...channel's masterstroke is Mouseterpiece Theater, in which George Plimpton, doing a droll parody of Alistair Cooke, introduces classic cartoons from an overstuffed leather chair: he annotates a Donald Duck short called Straight Shooters by reciting a Baudelaire poem in French to explicate Donald's existential behavior. About 40% of the channel's programming is mined from the Disney library, a Golconda of 60 years of treasures that include 450 cartoon shorts, 561 episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club, 75 episodes of Zorro ("He makes the sign of the Zeee!") and 200 never-before-syndicated hours...
...good marriage, is not always a fooL There are those in the field who?like the Ellen Jamesians, the self-mutilating feminists of The World According to Garp?seem too quick to find in wife abuse a confirmation and dramatization of sexism, a bloody cartoon of male oppression...
...ebullient Australian Designer Ben Lexcen, the keel has provided Newport with gossip, speculation and creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...