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This week, just in time for school break, the tough-shelled quartet makes its feature-film debut in a $12 million movie named, you guessed it, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, complete with a rap-music sound track. Turtlemaniacs may be surprised to find their cartoon heroes are portrayed by actors in high-tech ! turtle costumes (their computerized masks, with facial expressions that change by remote control, were designed at Muppeteer Jim Henson's Creature Shop). But the rest is familiar: the jokes are campy, the ninja feats daring if a little silly, and the Turtles still squabble noisily over practically...
...unlikely heroes made their debut seven years ago in a black-and-white comic book drawn by Peter Laird, now 36, and Kevin Eastman, 27. Laird had been "scraping out a living" drawing eggplants and such for the gardening page of a newspaper in Northampton, Mass., when the editor of a local comic magazine suggested that he collaborate with Eastman, an amateur cartoonist who was working as a short-order cook. One night in 1983 -- and neither can remember why -- inspiration struck. Eastman drew a humanized turtle wearing a ninja mask and carrying a katana blade. The idea...
...really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from Long Beach, Calif., has produced a work of noir literature that is the most memorable fiction debut of the season. With a magic all his own, he has written an illuminating novel that never fails to entertain but also, surprisingly, makes us feel...
...recent debut of the unabashedly right-wing publication Peninsula predictably provoked a broadside of "liberal" condemnations, with The Crimson firing the offensive. Before continuing to blast the staff of Peninsula for asserting that society needs a shared, common morality and that it is possible to base morality in truth, the left-wing elements at Harvard ought to examine the implications of their own position more carefully...
Times have changed. Today the issue is not whether visual education (via flickering projector or state-of-the-art VCR) can stimulate students. The question is who should do the stimulating, and at what cost. With the debut of a controversial newscast for teenagers, a fierce battle has been joined over TV in the classroom...