Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fellini Satyricon has been called "the first great Jungian film" (in Time magazine), and this would be true if we were to take graffitti as the quintessential representation of the collective unconscious. Otherwise, Fellini Satyricon is a loosely constructed. opulently produced cartoon, in which no one image seems essential to the thematic sense of the film and some make little sense...
...read with a great deal of interest the brief item, "Smokey the Capitalist" [Feb. 16]. Of special interest was the call for a cartoon character like Smokey to deal with problems of the environment...
...Emperor's New Clothes all over again," said the ad, which promoted a Madison Square Garden rally to raise campaign funds for antiwar Senate candidates. Among the scheduled speakers: Ramsey Clark, I. F. Stone and Julian Bond. The cartoon was hardly a contribution to the national debate, and few other countries in the world would casually allow their Chief of State to be depicted so contemptuously. But the U.S. presidency has survived sharper lampooning. Actually, the present instance might have been worse. The artist, Robert Grossman, originally had the whole crew walking along naked. The Times rejected that version...
...phone. Henry and Jane have something, but the little brother with the big mouth just might have everything. Outside his spacious Bel Air home, Bridget, 6, and Justin, 3½, gambol; Sue has retained her appeal; the checks from 22% of Easy Rider will soon annihilate the bills. A newspaper cartoon pinned above the fireplace says it all: two teen-age girls moon around a room waiting out a thunderstorm. "Do you think," asks one, "that it rains on Peter Fonda too?" No longer...
...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...