Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned as ambassador, it was perhaps the most meaningful tribute to her work that L'Unita, now representing a splintered, vastly weakened Communist Party, confined itself to a one-sentence notice without editorial comment...
Mademoiselle Gobette is for all you adults only at the Brattle, at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Us guys are allowed at the UPA cartoon festival, which is really whipping...
Fantasia is an experiment in translating classical music onto the screen through abstract and cartoon animation. When first shown in 1940, Walt Disney's most imaginative work was frustrated at the box office. Since Hollywood has never since dared a similar experiment, the film remains an original and fresh experience for the moviegoer...
...longer short, Picture Parade, makes one regret the Brattle's recent boycott of Magoo. It depicts scenic spots across America including caves in Oregon "so unusual they are under government protection." The cartoon concerns Pepe le Pew, an unsatisfied skunk...
...vitality that was unfortunately soon lost in an insipid and fashionable Ars elegante. Other expressionists like Kollowitz and Kokoschka remained true to the original inspiration. "Woman with Dead Child" is Kollowitz at her best struggling with the broad rhythms of suffering. Unfortunately the "Portrait of Else Heims" in its cartoon-like simplicity doesn't do justice to the finer, more nervous insight of Kokoschka...