Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn sap, scrawny, cartoon-faced Homer Zigler was a 23-year-old, $1-a-week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel...
Kentucky Moonshine (Twentieth Century-Fox) presents the Ritz Brothers bodaciously aping the feuding, corn-swilling hillbilly-o of the cartoon-strip clan. For the most part a lather of Ritz-Brother grimacing and guggling, this Hollywood picture of hillbilly doings is typically untypical...
...mosaics have a peculiar quality to them which means that a special process to reproduce this quality is needed. In making the great works of art, the cartoon was first painted on the plaster and the cubes were pressed into it while still wet. The artists engaged in this project were far advanced in technique. They understood well the value of gold in their backgrounds for an effect of space filled with light, and they learned to incline all the cubes slightly forward to meet directly the line of sight from below, thus gaining the utmost in clearness and brilliance...
...Cartoon of the year was an anti-War drawing by Vaughn Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News...
Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...