Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvey's creator is 33-year-old Ernest Pintoff, a gifted animator who put outsize satirical bite into such prizewinning cartoon shorts as The Interview and The Critic. In his first full-length feature in color, Pintoff has harnessed live actors to a dead horse. Harvey Middleman exudes a bogus air of originality, but is seldom funny enough to make its simplicity seem unpretentious...
...White House reporters he has courted and cajoled but never really won. Last week the buzz rose by several decibels in the wake of an extravagantly adulatory speech by one of his own aides (see following story) that became the target of jeering Washington comment, including a slashing Herblock cartoon...
...materials. One of his last collages, For Kate, uses American comic strips, sent to him by a New York friend. He cut them up and reassembled them under a thin layer of transparent tissue paper. That was 1947-long before the world had heard of Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon paintings, or of "happenings" as living collages, or even of pop itself...
Though filled with plot-happy cartoon Commies, Flora is strangely plotless. A stammeringly angry young Red (Bob Dishy) sweet-and-sour-talks a guileless fashion illustrator (Liza Minnelli) into carrying a card. When she surprises him with a half-undressed, wholly unabashed, free-love enterpriser (Cathryn Damon) and discovers that the chip on his shoulder is his head, she rips up both card...
...rarely search out good reporting; they sit back instead and examine the flood of entries that comes in: elaborately produced scrapbooks that often weigh as much as 40 pounds and unabashedly play up the skills of some intrepid reporter. Asked how he planned to spend his Prize money, 1956 Cartoon Winner Robert York replied: "I think I'll use it to pay for all the scrapbooks I have submitted year after year. It will come out about even " The Pulitzer juries are large and unwieldy. There is a 36-man group of editors (about four jurors per category) which...