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Crimson: Are you always looking at people and events around you with the eyes of a cartoonist; turning people into characters...
...Night. Interview with cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock...
...there in living black and white. Satire, said Playwright George S. Kaufman, is what closes Saturday night. But somehow every Saturday night Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters to foreign films. Satire thrived in Washington, where Cartoonist Herblock made savage, premonitory caricatures of Vice President Nixon in search of prominence. Mort Sahl earned $100,000 a year kidding the splayfoot, clayfoot maneuvers of the middle class, in and out of ofiice. Jules Feiffer, Walt Kelly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Mad magazine all flourished...
...unfavorable chemistry notwithstanding, the press gave Nixon generally fair coverage in his 1968 campaign, and considerable admiration during his first term. Even the cartoonist Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...
...craggy face and lumbering gait, combined with the endearing bluffness of a country parson, make him a cartoonist's dream. But when The Most...