Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is perhaps a touch of the dilettante in a man who -- with his eager, miss nothing eyes framed by horn-rims and a shy smile centered above his bow tie -- still looks like a cartoonist's vision of the brightest boy in class. But the intellectual restlessness that has kept Schlesinger circling from academic pillars -- Harvard, City University of New York -- to government and journalistic posts may have brought forth a certain freewheeling agility in the essayist...
Like many youths of his generation, Perelman absorbed himself in pulp literature and vaudeville. When he became a cartoonist and writer at Brown University, the melodramatic phrase coupled with the antic gesture were indispensable parts of his technique. Another campus satirist derived from the same origins: Nathan Weinstein, soon to be better known as Nathanael West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts. The two men were close friends, then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last...
...balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward or disguised. The second, and by far more subtle, is to suggest the movement of the artist's eye as it scans and scrutinizes, to put together (as in cubism) the scene and the process of seeing it. This...
...really is nice to have an ex-President give us this legacy," says the Chicago Tribune's deft cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, who harpooned Ford relentlessly. MacNelly has a long-hidden confession: "I was the only living cartoonist in Salzburg when Ford fell down the plane ramp. My only thought was 'Gee, I hope he didn't hurt himself.' When I got back to the U.S., every other cartoonist had had a field day. I never did catch...
...affluent city nearest to President Reagan's West Coast ranch. Anyone who spent a night in a public park risked a police rousting. But as the numbers of dispossessed grew, and police began cracking down, Santa Barbara came in for increasing criticism and ridicule. Last week, as Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned Santa Barbara in his comic strip and Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based activist, threatened to march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city council relented. Overnight sleeping will soon be permitted in certain designated public areas, including undeveloped, city-owned lots...