Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like ephemeral puffs of exhaust, current commercial movies are exhaled by a sidetracked Hollywood locomotive caught in the cartoon loop of capitalist consumption. When we can gain sufficient distance to see ourselves in the Hollywood mirror, we may hopefully give due recognition to other filmic trains of thought which reflect light on the nature of film as perception, and cultural utterance. Brakhage, as a metaphor for the exploding, embryonic, experimental film ghetto of insight, is an opportunity for those interested in the potential and future for film to discover a most human vehicle of introduction...
...Henry McGee (author of the article "The Greatest Show in the Universe" which appeared in Friday's Crimson) did not himself attend the New York Star Trek convention in February. If he had, he would know that Star Trek is returning -- in the form of a Saturday morning cartoon show. Blasphemy! I am glad that next year I shall be in Japan, where I can watch the re-runs instead. Sarah Thompson...
...sessions lasted about 45 minutes and they were always accompanied by beatings with fists, slapping on the ears so hard that eardrums were ruptured. The guards looked for any little infraction so they could beat you. Our guard-we called him 'Magoo' because he looked like the cartoon character, all squinty-was vicious. He used to come in the cell about twice a week and beat John Brodak and me. Sometimes he'd beat us for no cause, just open the door, come in and knock us around...
Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...
...majority held that the student could not be expelled because the cartoon and headline were not "constitutionally obscene." The Court stated: "The First Amendment leaves no room for the operation of dual standards in an academic community with respect to speech...