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...comic book burlesqued the Disney cartoon world, with its talking animals wearing three-fingered gloves, its ducks in sailor suits but no pants, and a mouse named Minnie "with lipstick and eyelashes and a dress with high-heeled shoes; a mouse, ten times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved exactly as barnyard and woodland denizens might. Beneath dollar-sign searchlights radiating from the Magic Kingdom's castle, Goofy had his way with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...true, Harvard went. But not before putting up a good fight on the ice and a good rat-a-tat-tat, take that in the stands...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: When the Cheers Changed into Tears | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...brown phones and three white ones are forever ringing in Atwater's room at the Radisson. Scanning the Charlotte Observer, he tells New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, "I want you to come down to Houston. Things start happening in the last ten days." After hanging up, Atwater, in his rat-a-tat South Carolina accent, explains, "We have blended the national campaign with the state campaign here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of a Political Machine | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Quadlings of Harvard unite! It is time to put an end to Quad-bashing, once and for all. Give the ignorant and the jealous a little taste of their own medicine by banishing them to the tunnels without a map. The next time you see a river rat lost in the Quad, tell them you're sorry and then let them scurry away into oblivion...

Author: By William Pao, | Title: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress. And no sweat, Baltimore: Waters has done you proud. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle (as a rat crawls through it). See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See Hairspray too. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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