Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...property was seized, monastic orders were prohibited, and each state was empowered to determine how many clergymen could serve in its territory. Though the antagonisms are less virulent today, any government official who enters a church to worship still does so at the risk of ruining his career. A cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior last week captured the country's schizophrenia: a government bureaucrat frowns at news of the Pope's visit, then when alone, jumps for joy with his rosary beads in hand...
...good cartoon book is an oblong entirely surrounded by laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated...
...Angeles Correspondent James Willwerth, who covered the activities of the Muppets on the West Coast, had the pleasantly eerie sensation that he had wandered into a different world, a kind of Disneyland as imagined by Mad magazine. "Everyone needs a dose of cartoon fun at regular intervals," says Willwerth, "but cartoons without subtlety can be pretty flat, and the Muppets have something extra that leapfrogs- forgive the pun-over the virtues of human acting...
...work on The Junior Morning Show, which ran for three weeks and then sank without a Variety trace. Henson's career was moving, however, with an ease and certainty that now seem almost eerie: a nearby NBC station hired Pierre and friends to help out on a cartoon show. By this time Henson was attending the University of Maryland, where he found a course in puppeteering. One of his fellow students was a New York girl named Jane Nebel, and when Henson's TV job expanded to include an afternoon variety show, she signed on to help...
David Levine is the best-known political and literary caricaturist since Max Beerbohm. His cartoon of Lyndon Johnson's gall bladder scar in the shape of Viet Nam is a classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John...