Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your cartoon cover bearing "Recession's Greetings" [Dec. 9] was an unwelcome intrusion into our home. You truly accentuated the negative, something we do not need. We are all bombarded by it daily as we shop for clothes, food and Christmas presents. I truly resent seeing the spirit of Christmas ruined just because there are hard times. For many centuries, we have celebrated the birth of Christ in times of leanness as well as plenty. But we have celebrated...
...might expect, this attitude sometimes leads to a depressingly inspirational complacency--The Red Detachment of Women reminds me a lot of West Side Story-- sometimes even in ways that. American critics might think of as suburban middle-class: one of the newsreels has a long animated cartoon about some rose-cheeked children sticking buttons on a snowman. On the other hand, at the museum of peasant art near Sian, though the paintings were all cheerful--the director said the art teachers who travel around to communes would probably use a peasant's depressing painting for "teaching by negative example...
...Beirut the morning after his speech, the newspaper an Nahar displayed a cartoon of a smiling world tipping its hat to Arafat. In the General Assembly, meanwhile, Third World delegates showed their enthusiasm not only by applauding Arafat for a full minute at the end of his speech, but by pointedly walking out on the later rebuttal by Israeli Delegate Yosef Tekoah...
...cartoons dramatized make very little sense. Playwriting comes naturally to me--just like the novel doesn't seem to be an extension of me. But there is a difference in writing play dialogues and cartoon dialogues. There are conversational subtleties that just aren't all that appropriate to cartoons...
...need a tightness of focus on these guys to make them explicable in certain cartoon terms. I haven't gotten a good Kissinger either. There is something about him that eludes me. I've been lazy about it too. But maybe it's something I have about underlings. I've never been able to do a McNamara either. I can't make a connection between their bodies and what they stand...