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...FRONT PAGE of the World Student Times, the CARP newspaper, features a cartoon of Bella Abzug and Stokeley Carmichael standing in front of the White House lecturing to some hippies. From all sides, Soviet tanks, planes, and aircraft carriers are converging. "Ivan...Let's meet at the big building with the white column. I hear they have a natural food line," one tank commander is saying. "When they've all burned their draft cards, open the curtains and let the tanks roll. We'll say we were invited by the fire commissioner," another Russian responds. Inside the newspaper, a professor...
...public reaction to the show, nonetheless, has been good. Friedman says he has received a stream of letters, "on the whole about 90% favorable." In Britain, where the show is also being aired, one of the biggest fans is Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Last week a cartoon in Punch showed the P.M. and her Secretary of State for Industry, Sir Keith Joseph, bowing reverently before a TV set tuned in to Friedman...
...shrink the world with a satellite signal, people tend to think of it as a total journalistic service. "We are not," says Chancellor. "We could be on three hours a night and could not produce a Russell Baker column or an Art Buchwald piece or a Jeff MacNelly cartoon. Television is good at the transmission of experience. Print is better at the transmission of facts...
...business situations that cannot be considered "subtle." The fables are hard-driving. One declares that "nothing cripples innovation and enterprise like heavy-handed regulation." Another describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant who "moves huge boulders and lifts great trees" to find watering holes for its fellow animals. The animals banish the elephant, accusing it of drinking more than its share of water, not realizing that it needs the water for its great tasks and size...
Schmertz, who had them adapted from a series of Mobil newspaper ads, has enlisted such talents as the American Ballet Theater and Mimes Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell to act out his messages. One of the most elaborate of the spots, the tale of a misunderstood elephant, combines cartoon animation, costumed frolicking by the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and a clever voice-over (see box). In another, the A.B.T. dances out the story of a squirrel who was good at finding nuts...