Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A musical transplant of the fairy tale sets real people (Gene Kelly and Bobby Riha) and cartoon characters dancing to the jaunty songs of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen...
...love the potential power to create a new propriety, to make today's errors tomorrow's principles. Specifically, Forman often neglects to "place" his scenes properly in space. It is hard to lay down principles by which proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction we never knew existed, our laughter is more complicated than that we give a clown's pratfall: we sense, also, that a plastic impossibility has occurred...
Joan Baez thinks so. In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being for peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...
President Liu Shao-chi last week was depicted in wall cartoons as Don Quixote charging against Mao's teaching. Beside him, as Sancho Panza, rode Liu's chief ally against Mao, Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping. A less kind cartoon showed Liu as a barking dog being drowned under the sun of Mao's teachings, and Liu's wife was crudely caricatured as a prostitute. That catty note may well have been the inspiration of Mrs. Mao, who likes to go by her screen name of Chiang Ching, which she acquired as a grade...
...because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between Doris Lessing and Italy's Alberto Moravia more pronounced than their differences of sex and language...