Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filmmakers whose works make up this program of cartoon shorts combine imagination and technology with a wicked sense of visual wit to come up with this series of fantasies that should beguile even those who hated Fantasia. Like the best of Disney's minions, these animators take the laws governing commonplace existence, turn them inside out and render the impossible persuasive...
There are lots of little things in this exhibit that inspire the viewer's curiousity about Hampton's influences. For instance, he has made several crowns and most have lightbulbs attached on top (covered with tin foil, of course). It seems obvious, and funny, that Hampton was inspired by cartoon depictions of "having an idea" (pop! the light bulb goes on over the head...
...Cartoon books, such as "Cat" and "Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head," both by Kliban, are selling madly at the Harvard Bookstore. Full of pictures and "very funny humor," according to Hewet, these books appeal to students who are looking for gifts and light reading. They are also "hilarious," Hewet adds...
...throttling back expansion of the U.S. money supply, he might not get the other six Federal Reserve governors to agree-and even if he did, he would practically be inviting an outraged Congress to take away the Federal Reserve's cherished independence. One newspaper cartoon pictures Burns and Carter as a Washington version of Price and Pride, A. &P.'s smoothly complementary TV pitchmen: Burns presumably cautioning the proud Carter not to jazz up the economy so much as to make the inflationary price unacceptable. That may be overstating the prospects for harmony...
...President Robert Wussler (they occasionally wave to each other from their windows). Silverman arrives at 9:30 each morning and begins rousing his West Coast producers from bed to discuss the overnight ratings. The rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with a stack of scripts, a rack of video cassettes and two cassette players, which he watches simultaneously...