Word: cartoonable
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...addition to championing segregation, the two Jackson papers practice a boosterism that would make a Bab bitt blush. The Clarion-Ledger regularly runs a Page One color photo of a local maiden or matron gushing something like "It is patio time again." The Daily News runs a front-page cartoon of a donkey named Hinny who brays verse on behalf of some local cause: "It's the first night for football in the high schools of the state/ And ol' Hinny hopes each one'll win its game-won't that be great...
...they turn to their readers they can read short sentences, sounding out such words as ant, man, pin, thin. In the first seven books, which average first-graders will complete in a school year, they learn roughly 375 words by sounding them out, often using clues offered by simple cartoon-like drawings. None of the words involve a phonetic conflict, such as the long o sound in doe, dough...
Another theme is labeled Inferiority Complex. And the tiny images that speckle these works are ciphers but also reference points dotted on the topography of his own thoughts. A cartoon imitation of a World War I biplane suggests war; corsets and garter belts spell out the paraphernalia of lust; a woman's pelvis is decorated with the design of a jet engine. "The life force," says Baruchello, "is supplied with fuel from two reservoirs-love and fear...
...World War II. She made an even bigger reputation in the Korean War as the only woman correspondent on the scene. At first, the U.S. Army wanted no women reporters at all and ordered her out of the country. Getting wind of this, a Soviet magazine gleefully ran a cartoon showing her being ejected from Korea at bayonet point. The caption: "MacArthur's first victory." But it was the general who capitulated. Maggie confronted him in Tokyo and complained: "I am not in Korea as a woman but as a war correspondent." Mac rescinded the order...
...Charlie Brown Christmas stars all the familiar Charles Schulz cartoon characters, faithfully animated by ex-Disney Artist Bill Melendez. The par able, too, is pure Schulz. Christmas is coming, but "good oF wishy-washy" Charlie Brown doesn't "feel the way I'm supposed to feel." "Look, Charlie Brown, let's face it," explains Lucy...