Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claus," John D. Rockefeller "the mummy of Rameses II." Churchill had a face "put together like early rose potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most of his life studying faces for some clue to the inner man. Along with Kelen's deft pen portraits, his incisive word pictures appear in his book...
Fire from the Belly. In Britain's finest hour, Low spurred the nation on. "All behind you, Winston," read the caption beneath one famous wartime cartoon, showing the Prime Minister at the head of a troop of resolute Britons, rolling up sleeves against the dirty job ahead. This must have pleased Churchill mightily; in other times, he had been one of Low's particular targets. "You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw...
Miss Hamlin captivates the audience with her lisping Baroness, an extremely funny addition to the original script. Her accent was reminiscent of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Kerr, as her fawning Viscount, was a real dandy, whose reactions to the bewildered Fadinard provided some of the best moments in the show...
...Wales. There were no ambiguities in the mine valley of Nye Sevan's youth; life could be sketched as a charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political...
Miss Caroline is the whimsical, affectionate brainchild of Gerald Gardner, 34, the former Manhattan adman who soared to publishing success of sorts last year with his bestselling, cartoon-like picture paperback Who's In Charge Here? Teaming up with Artist Frank Johnson, 32, Gardner began tinkering with the Miss Caroline cartoon idea last autumn, gave it a trial run with a 128-page paperback of single cartoon panels, which has sold 250,000 copies since it was published last January, and then showed samples to newspapers...