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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...
...aggressive marketing. Kellogg's has cornered 43% of the U.S. market-double that of either General Foods or General Mills-by doggedly making breakfast and cereal synonymous. The company preaches nutrition and flavor with countless advertise ments, 15 television shows (including the top-ranked Beverly Hillbillies) and afternoon cartoon shows on 180 local stations that feature such fetching salesmen as Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker and Huckleberry Hound. All this has helped put four Kellogg cereals-Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Sugar Frosted Flakes-among the industry's top seven sellers...
...Congratulations to Boris Chaliapin for a thoroughly delightful cover picture of Foreign Minister Couve de Murville. It was gratifying to note that the Virginia Museum's Le Lorgneur by Jean-Antoine Watteau (see cut) was the basis for his background cartoon...
Drawing-room duels, in literature as in life, seldom seem lethal. But in Miss Sarraute's special world, all the characters appear flayed alive in advance. Like the cartoon creatures of Jules Feiffer, they fear nothing so much as loneliness; they long to make human contact. But when they plunge together, each touch inevitably is anguish...