Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Lyndon Johnson will be able to pull some polls from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time...
...exhibit truly worthy of that old master, Fidel Castro. For lovers of impressionism, there was a blurred U.S. combat film showing a Green Beret trooper slinging grenades into a peasant's hut in Viet Nam. For pop-art fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Gene Kelly in a part cartoon musical version of the giant-killing classic. Repeat...
...recent cartoon in the Rumanian Communist Party newspaper Scinteia pictured a chubby bon vivant in a homburg slouched in the back seat of a limousine driven by his uniformed chauffeur. The paper's lampoon was propaganda, all right, but this time it was not aimed at the usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class...
...young women, who had bought $100 box seats to a U.N. Concert at Constitution Hall, were denied admission by federal agents Saturday night, The Washington Post reported. The reason: they had brought with them an anti-war cartoon--embracing men of many nations--which they wanted cellist Pablo Casals to autograph, one of them said. The problem: their box adjoined that of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. And the dove cartoon was interpreted as a possible threat by Rusk's protectors...