Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Philippe as Sargantua. The lithograph was a comparatively new art in those days, but it quickly became Daumier's bread and butter. He began turning out political cartoons for an ardently antiroyalist magazine called La Caricature. One cartoon portrayed King Louis Philippe as Gargantua gobbling up every last sou in France. For such indiscretions Daumier spent six months in prison...
...undergraduates and graduate students returned to Harvard in the fall of 1960 to find many of their professors already actively engaged in advisory roles for the chosen candidate--Sen. John Fitsgerald Kennedy '40. The switch from Adlai Stevenson was made with only a few bruises. The New Yorker cartoon aptly showed a messenger running into a smoked-filled room, "it's Harvard, professor, they went last June's exams corrected...
While disappointments and problems were zooming around him recently, President John Kennedy told a White House liaison man: "I'm damned if I don't feel like that cartoon character in Li'l Abner who's always wandering around with a rain cloud over his head...
...more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon are thrown in free...
...crate (one speculates vainly on why its owner is inside) and grabs for an M & R bottle that is sliding toward an open porthole. The viewer thinks the bottle will fall over board. It does, in some commercials; but sometimes the ad is shown with a happy ending. A cartoon for Puss 'n Boots cat food shows a little man eating a can of Puss 'n Boots. A voice asks why he, a man, is doing this. Instead of replying that the cat food is so good that he prefers it to filet mignon, or something equally trite...