Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends from Alexandria, Va., gave Gerald Ford a cartoon recently that showed a pathetic-looking John Q. Public handing the President a cracked and scarred world globe and ordering...
...sign of a coming rapprochement between the two countries, and were angry about last week's visit to Cuba by U.S. Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell (see THE WORLD). Miami Extra, a Florida-based Cuban newspaper, scorned the Senators as "tourists of socialism" and ran a cartoon showing the two emerging, battered and bloodied, from a meeting with a club-carrying Castro...
...experimental images by contemporary photographers. Also: "19th and 20th Century American Portraits in Prints, Drawing and Sculpture"--through September. Artists exhibited include Sargent, Copley and Whistler--a great chance to find out what Louis Agassiz really looked like. Todd McKie, who last year drew some snide comments for his cartoon-like watercolors in a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, is featured in "Contemporary Boston Artists: Works on paper", through Sept. 29 on the drawing balcony. I was one who disdained his long-nosed humanoid figures, and their omission in these works is a definite improvement...
WRIGHT HAS ALSO made himself a favorite target of the Daily News, the country's highest circulation newspaper, which dubbed him "cut 'em loose Bruce," and unleased a continuing editorial and cartoon barrage demanding his removal from the bench...
...press is traditional, and reporters have referred to it openly (and jokingly) in their stories of the past week. A trial period for a new man in office is only fair, of course--he must be allowed time to prove himself. Thus, in a now-famous 1968 cartoon for The Washington Post, Herblock captioned an empty barbershop chair, "Everyone who enters this shop receives a clean shave," signaling the suspension of a long-held grudge against incoming President Richard Nixon...