Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Motors executives announced production of 500 tricolor SC/ Ramblers -steamed-up versions of the family economy car-and then watched delightedly as a flood of orders obliged them to triple the total. Sales of Plymouth's 1969 Road Runner-available with the "beep, beep" horn of its cartoon namesake and a 425 h.p. "King Kong" engine-have so far totaled 40,000, up 94% over the equivalent period last year...
...affirm the purported image. Yet, it bears little relation to the man today. Wolfe's features are those of one much older, an adult, in fact. They are sharply delineated as if fine pencil lines have been added to what had previously existed only as a rather rough cartoon. His hands are pale, they melt into his white suit. If it were not for his relaxed gestures, they might look like those of Uriah Heep. Although his hair--almost red--is moderately long, it too is very fine, almost thin. Wolfe's humor is casual, often offered only tentatively...
...less grand. The island proved so successful that the event is being repeated. Friday evening, Richie Havens will perform in concert at Cambridge Latin. The following evening, the committee has scheduled a dance featuring Cliff Nobles and the Listening at which free mixer will be available. A Road Runner cartoon festival, special Union meals, and a Sunday concert by Harvard's own venerable singing institution, the Krockodillos, will round out the event...
...Outcast. Capp denies that he has become reactionary since becoming rich. "I was making $150,000 a year while I was still in my 20s," he says. "My job as a humorist is to find lunacy wherever it exists and expose it." For years he fought McCarthyism in his cartoon strip. "But lunacy has shifted-you can't rely on it. I find it on the left now, and that's where I'm firing...
...recent New Yorker cartoon, a scrofulous bum is shuffling past a Broadway theater at intermission time. With smug insouciance, he addresses a passing query to the patrons under the marquee: "How about it, folks? Getting your eleven dollars and ninety cents' worth?" Top ticket prices are $15 for 1776, and to answer the bum's question, it is a bearable $3 show...