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...goes another episode of Les Frustrés, a cartoon strip created by a Frenchwoman named Claire Bretécher and appearing in the leftist French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. For four years now, Les Frustrés has been comic-stripping the hypocrisy from everyday life among the thinking classes. In the process, Bretécher has become a financially secure woman, a cult figure among the trendy Parisians she skewers, and probably the most important French cartoonist never to be heard...
That last characteristic will be shortlived. Ms. magazine has begun featuring a Bretécher cartoon each month on its back page, and others have been popping up in such disparate places as Esquire and Viva. A book-length collection of her work, National Lampoon Presents Claire Bretécher ($5.95), was published in the U.S. last month by 21st Century Communications. Ten volumes of her work have appeared in France, and recent ones have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur...
DIED. Richard Lindner, 76, German-born painter whose brassy, cartoon-like and often sinister depictions of women had the bite of Brecht and the machine-like surface of Léger; in Manhattan. Lindner, a Jew, escaped the Nazis by fleeing to France and then to the U.S., where he worked as an illustrator until his own work became successful in the 1960s. His favorite subject-woman-he saw as "bursting her corsets like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting...
...Your cartoon with "Hoover's Home Improvements" [Jan. 23] made me realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...
...desk sat a cartoon with the inscription: "Behold the turtle, He makes progress only when his neck is stuck out." Conant was able to follow that advice in a way that should prove inspirational to today's educators, who without exception continue to lie in his imposing shadow...