Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone to explain. Baldrige replied, 'I understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with entirely new areas, such as smoking, computer and answering-machine etiquette. Says Castronovo: "It can be argued that the new manners include both lighting your companion's cigarette and snuffing it out in a rage...
Eating and entertaining are becoming more elaborate, in sometimes confused ways. New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton, a sharp-eyed chronicler of manners, recalls being invited to a black-tie dinner with a group of typical yuppies, nervously ambitious professionals in their late 20s-but there were no servants. "Wearing black tie and cooking your own dinner is like make-believe," says Hamilton. "It's like the whole nation is trying to reinvent the 1930s, including '30s manners and mannerisms." Over brandy and cigars the host complained that his "greatest problem was when his father came...
That is why Cartoonist Hamilton, who has just finished a book titled Up in Class, was so struck by the black-tie yuppies' dinner with no servants in attendance. "Everything I can see in the way of new manners is very ersatz and copied, very nostalgic for something they've gotten from old movies, from some hopeful rumor of a more distinguished period in which to live," says Hamilton. "They're just dressing up. They all love suspenders, art deco, fragments of an earlier grandeur, and that's the new conservatism. Reagan...
...best cartoonists seek not just a likeness but some dominant trait that sums up the man. The result can be at war with the cartoonists' political sympathies. "I have a conflict," says Don Wright of the Miami News. "Basically, I'm rooting for Mondale, but sometimes he comes across bland and wimpish." Oliphant draws him with "sleepy eyes bringing out the boring aspects." The Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad says, "I'd like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these...
Breathed does have a good sense of self and a good sense of self vs. Trudeau. He tries, somewhat gingerly, to joke about his relationship with his top-box predecessor. In one example. Bloom County star Milo Bloom dreams of being a syndicated cartoonist thrown into the dungeon for missed deadlines, where he is hung on the wall in chains next to a bearded prisoner. The bearded prisoner jokes that he has been in the cellar for nine months, whereupon Milo says "nine months? Wait a minute. Gary Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking...