Word: cartoonist
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...Times hit the newsstands. The cover picture, Agnew's face superimposed on a golf ball, gained new force-leaving aside questions of taste. The supporting story-a two-page list of assorted choices to succeed the Vice President -is timely but frivolous. Eugene McCarthy nominates Pat Nixon, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer likes Bebe Rebozo, Senator William Saxbe votes for himself...
...with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation-which made Disneyland and Disney World possible. He turned himself from a cartoonist into the Old Master of masscult, and from there became a Utopian environmentalist...
Director Levinson, a former cartoonist and animator, gets off a few broadly effective visual gags (the president of the steelworkers union taking a bubble bath in his hard hat), but he has all the ironic sense of a divorce-court magistrate, and the sort of teary sentimentality that allows him to present scenes of federal troops sacking a hippie camp in slow motion while Judy Collins sings Amazing Grace on the sound track. Nevertheless, one admires the vigor, if not the style, of his attack...
...most praised tricks in Traffic--the superposition of characters on an Edward Hopper painting of a restaurant or a Godfather parody in which the Mafia leader is shot up while eating spaghetti, are heavy-handed by comparison. The device of framing the film with shots of the cartoonist Michael at his favorite pinball machine is intended to serve as a metaphor for Bakshi's brand of East Village existentialism but since Tommy it's a pretty trite trick. The conventional film segments at the end only expose the paucity of the caricatures and if Bakshi is forced already...
Michael is a 22-year-old cartoonist who still lives with his parents in a grim flat on Manhattan's Lower East Side...