Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German, the offense is worse: the British are currently in the mood of resenting the fact that in a Berlin crisis it would be Germans they were fighting to save. All this was behind a Fleet Street tizzy last week. The press had found a West German election cartoon showing Queen Elizabeth II simpering happily at a granite-faced but visionary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (.see cut) under the legend: "Partners of the Free World...
Huffed London's Daily Sketch: "It is believed that never before has the Queen been used-especially in a cartoon-to capture votes in an election." The London Times majestically remarked that the Queen's traditional detachment from politics "may not have been fully appreciated in Germany." The British Foreign Office "drew attention" to the matter in an icy phone call to the West German embassy...
...Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...
...left-hander who works carefully up from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime...