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== Books |
== Books == |
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* The most noted example might be ''[[Animal Farm]].'' Designed to be a criticism of Communism, it had great difficulty finding a publisher, largely because of fears it would undermine the [[World War II]] alliance between the US, UK, and Soviet Union. If it had been written "straight," it might not have been published; as an allegory about farm animals, it could slide by. |
* The most noted example might be ''[[Animal Farm]].'' Designed to be a criticism of Communism, it had great difficulty finding a publisher, largely because of fears it would undermine the [[World War II]] alliance between the US, UK, and Soviet Union. If it had been written "straight," it might not have been published; as an allegory about farm animals, it could slide by. |
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* ''[[Where's Waldo]]?'': Cartoonist Martin Handford hid his titular hero amongst massive (sometimes absurdly so) crowd scenes in which so many unusual events were taking place that you had to look carefully to make out the guy in the striped shirt and ski cap (which was the point of the book). Many of the events depicted were ridiculous or bizarre, and several of them were controversial inclusions for a book aimed at kids ages 6 to 14: [[The Nudifier|a vacuum cleaner sucking a woman's dress off of her body]], [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|a man graphically vomiting]], and [[Groin Attack|another guy getting accidentally hit in the nuts]]. One of these sneaky scenes was so subtle that you might not even notice it: a boy at the beach teases a bikini-clad beauty by placing the cold end of his ice cream cone on her back, causing her to bolt up from a prone to a semi-prone position; unless you're looking closely, you might not notice that the girl has loosened her bikini top so as not to get tan lines while sunbathing, and she's about to expose her bare breasts to the world. |
* ''[[Where's Waldo]]?'': Cartoonist Martin Handford hid his titular hero amongst massive (sometimes absurdly so) crowd scenes in which so many unusual events were taking place that you had to look carefully to make out the guy in the striped shirt and ski cap (which was the point of the book). Many of the events depicted were ridiculous or bizarre, and several of them were controversial inclusions for a book aimed at kids ages 6 to 14: [[The Nudifier|a vacuum cleaner sucking a woman's dress off of her body]], [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|a man graphically vomiting]], and [[Groin Attack|another guy getting accidentally hit in the nuts]]. One of these sneaky scenes was so subtle that you might not even notice it: a boy at the beach teases a bikini-clad beauty by placing the cold end of his ice cream cone on her back, causing her to bolt up from a prone to a semi-prone position; unless you're looking closely, you might not notice that the girl has loosened her bikini top so as not to get tan lines while sunbathing, and she's about to expose her bare breasts to the world. |
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