Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months was all he could stand. He quit to doodle in the art departments of both the Chronicle and the Bulletin. Later he moved to the Evening Mail in New York. There one day, after finishing a cartoon for the sports page, he found a little space left over and filled it with FOOLISH QUESTION No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he was hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
Ludicrously heavy-handed, Therese is just no way to start Reading Period. But you should enjoy the short playing with it, The Old Man and the Flower--an intentional, not inadvertent, cartoon by Ernest Pintoff...
Costigan must have known he was dealing in cartoon-like commonplaces; his failure is to establish a point of view. The audience is aware that he is being satirical when he spoofs Emil's supposed masculinity, but it isn't sure how seriously to take the psychological mishmash. If Costigan is truly concerned with dreams and guilt feelings, he doesn't say very much, badly. And if the whole play is intended as a boff of modern theater, Costigan fluffs the job by giving the production an overly sober tone...
There was plenty of evidence to prove that pious Soviet denials of anti-Jewish activity are hollow. The most topical was a book called Judaism Without Embellishment, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. One cartoon from this "history" of Judaism showed a man with an exaggeratedly hooked nose described as a Zionist leader serving the "Hitlerite" invaders of the Ukraine...
...long ago a little-known French comedy called Zazie Dans le Metro played the art-cinema circuit. It was a great spoof of all sorts of movies, from the Last Year at Marienbad variety to the Disney cartoon, and it was brilliantly funny without being selfconsciously clever. Writer-director Adolfas Mekas has tried without success to pull off the same sort of joke in Hallelujah. All that comes through however, is an hour and a half of very self-conscious and very unfunny cleverness...