Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet Movie was shown two years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then it has acquired a justifiably vile reputation. A sort of live-action animated cartoon, the movie is a paean to the joys of insanity. Should there be any mistaking this intent, Director Dusan Makavejev (who made another Reichian parable, WR-Mysteries of the Organism) includes a little ditty with the refrain, "It's a joy to be crazy/ Good to be sad.../ Good to practice deadly sin/ To be alive and to win." Irony, if intended, is imperceptible...
...lighter vein...Emerson College is exhibiting something called "The Turbeville Collection of Original Cartoon Art" at the First and Second Church in Boston, corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets. Through...
...full salary (which he won't disclose.) He has yet to wear his Bengals jersey, a jarring detail to those who remember McInally going virtually everywhere last year wearing a big 84, his Harvard number. (At times, it seemed as though he had stepped straight out of a Doonesbury cartoon...
SOME OF THE MORE obvious perspective changes in the book come from attitudes women could once laugh off, but now snarl at. A 1915 cartoon by Rollin Kirby, which appeared in the New York World, showed four men around a tavern table drinking and smoking with a newspaper whose headlines read: "Woman's Suffrage Defeated." The caption on the cartoon reads: "Well, boys, we saved the home...
...Yorker cartoon is a rectangle entirely surrounded by laughter. In the fiftieth anniversary collection, the occupants of those rectangles gather like relatives at a spirited family reunion...