The effect is like an old cartoon where the entire town is drifting into slumber, not just the people in it.

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For all his modern tendencies and techno toys, Spector wants people to just look at how "cartoony -- that's really the only word I can think of" Oswald is, a throwback to the old days of cartooning and cartoon characters.

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The movie has proved a huge hit for Disney even though many analysts predicted that a cartoon with a cranky old man as the lead would never live up to Pixar's previous successes.

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So-called mature American audiences may be put off at first by a film that is essentially a cartoon about a fearful ten-year-old girl.

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The 22-year-old is popularly nicknamed Yawara-chan, after a cartoon character who rises to the pinnacle of the judo world after years of struggle.

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Claude Johnson learned about his oldest child's fate while flipping through channels to find a cartoon for Shoshana's daughter, 2-year-old Janelle.

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That study, which looked at 8- to 10-year-old children in the Netherlands and was also coauthored by Sargent, found that 20-minute clips from a cartoon and family film depicting smoking had no measurable impact on the kids' beliefs about smoking.

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Poking at my laptop, I noticed my two kids -- my 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son -- patiently waiting for Daddy to get done with the television so they could get on with the cartoon hour.

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