Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a cartoon face and cartoon mannerisms: He chews on a dark cigar while conversing, leans back and beams at it. His conversation is peppered with visual terms; he refers frequently to getting a "fix" or a "take" on a subject or a person...
Theater is much closer to real life and real involvement than a cartoon--and much more dangerous. When it was done in Los Angeles, we had people getting up out of their seats and screaming at the actors. I don't think my cartoons can inspire that kind of violence. Although people do clip my cartoons out and send them to me with notations how they think the cartoons should have been written...
...Bordeaux wine merchants and brokers, plus one laboratory chemist, went on trial late last month on charges of selling fraudulently labeled wine, the scandal was inevitably pronounced "the wine trial of the century." That may be a slightly extravagant claim; commenting on the scandal, a London Sunday Times cartoon showed a more restrained British wine-taster savoring the events and declaring, "not a great trial but an interesting one." Nonetheless, the episode has proved an embarrassment to France's wine industry, which is proud of its supposedly fraud-proof control standards...
...Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages are devoted to the life and times of Frank Sinatra-juxtaposed with a mini-history of the atomic bomb. In the spinning mind of the reader, the Bay of Pigs and the Edsel seem to loom as equal disasters. The Cliquot Club Eskimos...
Octoberfest dance and cartoon festival. Adams House Dining Hall JCR, $1, 9 p.m., Saturday...