Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saved from a crazed bisexual professor at an Austin party. The blonde is, in fact, dumb and the professor rather decent. With his new wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife to a motorcycle bum, falls in love with an L.A. cartoonist whom he meets while scripting the film made from his novel, and becomes justly depressed when she turns out to be frigid. They split: he returns to Texas, and she to a cameraman she loved before she even met Danny. After another series of extra and marital mishaps, including screwing...
There are moments when we think McMurtry is up to Deck's primitive I-am-an-artist game. When Deck's cartoonist-lover feels that he does not understand her own pain, she tells him that he just isn't used to thinking about people. But then she adds that Deck is everything any woman should want (especially if she already has a nice apartment). And the entire novel ends with a glorification...
...remake this year of a movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella. French magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central to the sporting-set concept...
...addition to the transcript, this issue includes a helpful introduction by Robert Decherd '73, the 1972 Crimson President, and a new perspective on press and academic privileges by R. Michael Kaus '73, a Crimson senior editor. We would like to thank our cartoonist Peter Kaplan whose work has appeared in previous Dump Trucks, for his cover design and his excellent drawings on the inside pages. Finally we offer our thanks to the participants in the panel discussion for sharing their ideas, experiences and perspectives with us. --The Editors
...more flamboyant political leaders of Latin America-the Fidel Castros, the Che Guevaras-are familiar to the point of cartoonist's cliches. But what does the ordinary North American citizen and/or reader know of Latin American cultural leaders? For instance: Octavio Paz, Mexico's foremost poet and essayist-hardly a North American household name...