Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia-friendly, but expensive!" ∙To the police sergeant, the patrolman explains a fact of modern life: "You can tell the delinquents who come from affluent families-instead of razors they use electric carving knives!" These needle-sharp political gibes are the work of James O. Berry, 32, whose cartoon feature, Berry's World, is syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a New York affiliate of Scripps-Howard newspapers. They go to 570 papers throughout the U.S., and since Berry's cartoons come as part of a package, none of N.E.A.'s clients are under any obligation...
More often than not, his cartoons appear on the editorial page, where they seem almost like modest postscripts to the regular editorial cartoon. A Berry panel never shouts. None of the characters are ever directly identified, and the point of the joke is sometimes kept as deliberately small as the cartoon itself, which runs two columns wide to the typical editorial cartoon's three columns. "I find if I draw large, there's a tendency to put in too much detail," says Cartoonist Berry, himself a bulky and heavily detailed 210-pounder who stands...
Berry's forte is good-natured whimsy and a talent for deft deflation that is particularly effective when he sights in on his folksy cartoon image of Lyndon Johnson. His approach contrasts sharply with the generally aggressive comment of his cartoonist colleagues. "We get enough of the angry stuff," says Berry. He considers himself a "middle-of-the-roader" and prefers to keep his political preferences a secret for the ballot box. "I'm not really mad at anybody," he says. "Satire comes naturally to me, and I prefer to take potshots at anybody and anything...
...PONT, on the other hand, presents a 45-minute commercial that succeeds be cause of its fast pace and good timing. Live actors are synchronized with film excerpts, song-and-dance routines with cartoon characters. The cast performs as though it were not all for a synthetic cause...
...that she is a girl to conjure with. As the redoubtable Mary Poppins, who declares herself "practically perfect in every way," Julie slides up banisters, arranges all sorts of tidy miracles, and even whisks her charges off to one of Disney's cloyingly clever never lands where the cartoon fauna come swiftly to heel. Although she pokes her pretty fingers into a world of sticky sweetness, she almost invariably pulls out a plum. All speeches and cream, with a voice like polished crystal, she seems the very image of a prim young governess who might spend her free Tuesdays...