Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation that perhaps yearns most for victory is Britain. With the country's economy in a mess and Prime Minister Harold Wilson under fire, what Britons long for is to be supreme once more in something. "Please, please, England, win," cries a fan in a London newspaper cartoon, "if only to take my mind off the pound...
CHARLIE BROWN'S ALL-STARS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).*The second animated special on Charles Schultz's Peanuts cartoon strip. The first, "Charlie Brown's Christmas," won an Emmy award for the best children's show of the 1965-66 season...
...very much was disturbed. Besides the front-page revision, a political cartoon has been added to the center spread, although to date it has been as bland as another addition, a quasi-gossip column, known as a diary, calculated to offend nobody. Even so, readers have already written anguished letters. The Times reassured them in an editorial: "There were far more vehement fears when the Times started a crossword puzzle. We hope that the Times diary will come to be as eagerly awaited and as highly regarded as the Times crossword...
...latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist, Giacomo Balla, and dated 1912, is clearly a harbinger...
...Stations of the Cross, he could fall back on a ready-made iconography. The fifth painting, he knew, must represent Simon helping Christ shoulder the cross. Not so for an abstract painter, who must face the problem of portraying the progression toward Calvary without the props of episodic, cartoon-strip clarity, and at the same time strive to render its essential agony. Barnett Newman, 61, the most abstract of the U.S. abstract expressionists, made the problem even harder: he resolved to limit himself to his own astringent style, depict Christ's passage in stark vertical chords, using only black...