Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of the Princeton game on November 8, 1926, the Lampoon published football issue featuring a cartoon of two pigs wallowing in the mud with the caption, "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
...drawings took Thurber no time at all-a fact that he tried to hide from Ross-and he covered the walls of Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon in 90 minutes, for drinks. He claimed to belong to the "pre-intentionalist" school. His famed seal-barking cartoon began, he recalled, with a fine seal. But the rock he tried to draw under the seal looked hopelessly like a bed, and one thing led to another...
Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...
...cold, businesslike attitude to everything, especially love. The trouble is that the movie itself never rises above the crass except briefly, with the street musicians. It's a really great shame the feature had to be so bad this week, since the Brattle has acquired a classic Donald Duck cartoon that shouldn't be missed...
...basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack who is not as slick or tricky as the world around him. But the whole show is a little...