Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film opens in London only this week, but the force is already there. Discothèques have been playing the music for months, and London papers don't look complete these days without a Star Wars cartoon, joke or picture. One daily, the Evening News, is even running a picture-studded serialization to boost circulation. The two giant theaters where the movie will play have already racked up $320,000 in advance ticket sales?more than three times the previous record. Said a theater spokesman: "It's easier to get knightedm than buy Star Wars tickets." "I've been in this...
...five national small-college championships for the southern Indiana university and this year moved up into the National Collegiate Athletic Association's prestigious Division I. Evansville hired big-time Coach Bobby Watson from Oral Roberts University, recruited some hot-shooting freshmen and revived an old mascot: a cartoon riverboat gambler holding a winning poker hand of four aces. In spite of a record of one win and three losses, spirits were high as the team boarded a chartered DC-3 for the 70-min. hop to Nashville and a game against Middle Tennessee State University...
...chooses such work is Lee Lorenz, cartoon editor of The New Yorker. In Now Look What You've Done (Pantheon; unpaged; $7.95), Lorenz employs little of Saxon's architectural draftsmanship or Price's mirth-shaking slapstick. But in the right mood, he can quote anything out of context for hilarious effect. Outside the witch's gingerbread house a sign reads: THIS STRUCTURE WILL BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS...
...succeeds where the others fail because Fred Silverman, the network's programming whiz, knows that audiences want to see characters on the tube. The people on ABC are often cartoon figures, but their outlines are filled in by talented and at times magnestic performers. Like Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball before them, Henry Winkler and Laverne & Shriley's Penny Marshall can transform rampant silliness into laughter...
Like those two characters in a Jerusalem Post cartoon, most Israelis last week seemed to be exploring a new economic landscape with little joy, a dash of mordant wit and a surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer...