Word: cartoonist
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Study Bill Clinton working a rope line. Greedily, avidly, his long, curiously angled fingers reach deep into the crowd to make the touch, an image that in my mind has some cartoonist's kinship to Michelangelo's Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Lyndon Johnson pressed flesh with the same gluttonous physicality, wading into the human surf, clawing and pawing into the democratic mass with an appetite amazing, alarming...
...tough lesson to learn for a nineteen year old. Her father, Karolj Seles, was the anti-tennis father, the exception amidst a crowd of money-hungry entrepreneurs pushing their sons and daughters for that extra endorsement, that last exhibition. He was a gentle man, a cartoonist who drew caricatures on tennis balls to get young Monica to focus on the ball when she hit her punishing groundstrokes...
...current state of the presidential race might give the average citizen reason to despair and might even challenge the creative genius of the world's greatest political cartoonist, but as I sit at my desk, I see Duke, dragging on his cigarette, saying, "Things could be worse; Zonker could be running." On second thought, that doesn't sound...
...already been there, done that. In 1988, Yale's secret society, Skull and Bones (of which Bush Sr. was a member) featured prominently in the strip, as did analysis of Gore's political and familial pressures in the Democratic primary. All the former Yale Daily News cartoonist has to do now is print re-runs for the next 12 months. He may have covered George Bush's bubble icon with a large empty cowboy hat for his son, but it otherwise seems like the same old story...
...political cartoonist showed cable-TV reporters underwater in scuba gear, microphones extended to interview the fish off Martha's Vineyard. Yes, the J.F.K. Jr. crash was a tragedy, but the print and media coverage was excessive. PHIL COHEN Bay Harbor...