Word: cartoonable
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Undershirts received an almost fatal blow in 1934, when Clark Gable stripped off his shirt in It Happened One Night to reveal only a bare chest underneath. Suddenly this summer, the undershirt is very much back in-but not as an undergarment. Violently colored and decorated with cartoon characters (Mickey Mouse), symbols of dissent (a marijuana plant) or simple slogans (Fly the Friendly Skies of Cambodia), the shirts are a bright new trend for the kids-and the Over-30s too. Much more than other clothing, they are designed to convey the wearer's feelings. Hearts on sleeves...
...recent cartoon in a Belgian newspaper showed King Baudouin eagerly clasping the hand of Bicycle Racer Eddy Merckx. In the surrounding crowd, one spectator is seen asking a companion: "Hey, who's that fellow shaking hands with Eddy...
...grounds that too much of these good things can be harmful to some people. The FDA is backed by the American Dietetic Association, but opposed by the American Medical Association. While the great breakfast-food debate goes on, many parents can echo the tag line of a cartoon in the Arkansas Gazette: "Isn't anything sacred any more...
...Island Earth" concerns the second category of fear, fear of Alien Invasion. It Jeans very heavily on its 1956 milieu for inspiration, yet despite, or perhaps because of inanity, it reveals other immediate aspects of the mentality behind the race to the moon. While the flick is apparently a cartoon show of sheer escapism, the political situation somehow manages to insinuate it self...
Commissioned by Dougherty, a graduate student at Caltech whipped up the face design (a cartoon of Agnew with the gloved minute hand forming the peace sign), and a Swiss company turned out a trial run of 2,000 watches. A neighbor's daughter contributed the company name by mispronouncing Dougherty, and Dirty Time, Inc., started ticking off the orders...