Word: cartoon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next to him I was amazed by how much he looked the way he was supposed to. I imagined for a moment that his face had been remodelled by representatives of the mass media to match the image which they have popularized--even more, he looked like a Nixon cartoon given life. I had expected that meeting Nixon would tend to humanize the plastic, electronic Nixon-image that I had always known, but I found the real Nixon overpowered in my mind by the plastic. As we talked, I thought with astonishment of the millions of synthetic Nixon-images which...
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an elaborate cartoon adventure starring the Beatles in animated form. Although Animator Heinz Edelmann brings off a series of visual puns, the overall result tends to drag at times...
...Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al baseball stories. As soon as she could get the magazine away from him, Mom settled comfortably with a mystery serial by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which inevitably began, "Had I but known. . ." The kids giggled at Little Lulu's cartoon antics. And of course everybody could enjoy the latest Scattergood Baines episode or grin wryly at the gas-station attendant on the cover - absentmindedly ogling a pretty woman driver while the gas tank he has filled overflows...
...Jules Feiffer cartoon is an act of aggression camouflaged by humor. Feiffer is a satirical sniper who drills lethal little holes in the feverish body politic. In security, hostility, urban hysteria are both his targets and his weapons, and all his cartoons are Little Murders, as he has titled his first full-length play...
...will admit that what disturbs me about this movie, which is nothing more than a 30-minute cartoon (but others in the series are coming), is that I do not know these animals. And so maybe I am as guilty as Walt Disney, because they were never mine either. But I know how to leave them alone in the Hundred Acre Wood. What I don't like is this tampering. Trees can look at trees (I don't believe Walter Hickel)--we don't need roads to help people look at them...