Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pavel Kohout and printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev frantically pouring buckets of water on a tiny bungalow representing Czechoslovakia. A dwarf-sized man is peeking out of a window and shouting at him: "This house is not on fire...
...woman, man, birds, flowers, sparks. Of course he paints them in his own way-and they are instantly recognized the world over. Though he insists that he only draws what he sees, his images are usually a surreal shorthand. An asterisk denotes a star, a curlicue a snail, a cartoon figure with popeyes and a Minnie Mouse behind becomes a kind of Iberian Everyman. "I'm always in a state of dreaming," says Miró, suggesting that his night vision discerns what others cannot...
...more practical idealism and intellect of the majority of the 18-21 bracket might possibly act as a much needed balance to the whim, superficiality and economic egotism of the present American voting public, a great many of whom are misinformed or, indeed, ignorant. Why not publish a cartoon of a mass of "adult" voters at a political picnic, gurgling free beer and goggling their devotion to an ambitious and ambiguous demagogue...
...from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale...
Lovable Tummy. One of the first breakthroughs in uncommercial making came in 1964 in a new Alka-Seltzer series. For years, "Speedy Alka-Seltzer," the cartoon imp with a tablet for a hat, insulted audiences by pushing the fizz as though he were conducting a Romper Room class. Then the Jack Tinker agency took over the account and decided to try for a touch of wit and realism: a film showing nothing more than a quick succession of people's midriffs being prodded and pushed, or just merrily jouncing along. The message was: "No matter what shape your stomach...