Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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there is a new full length cartoon entitled shinbone alley which i saw on the cuff and later the collar of a critic
...died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne...
Though Scoop (the nickname came from an old cartoon character) humorously refers to himself as "an official non-candidate," he most certainly would like to be President. He is also frank about his chances. "I can read the polls," he says. "I can see how far out front Muskie is." If Muskie should stumble along the way, though, party leaders are bound to note that Jackson's disparate views give him as wide an ideological appeal as any other current Democratic hopeful now commands...
...film, little Milo (Butch Patrick) is sitting around in San Francisco with "nothin' to do" when a candy-striped package appears in his room. Unwrapped, it becomes a tollbooth; when he drives his kiddie car through it, he becomes part of a cartoon interpretation of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Head of the Verbal World is King Azaz; his dreaded brother and rival, the Mathemagician, is "Ruler of Numbers." A series of adventures eventually earns Milo the role of peacemaker: he rescues the maidens Rhyme and Reason from a castle prison, thereby eliminating the sibling rivalry...
...local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife. Clavell has doubtless been studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder: as the soldiers descend into the only unspoiled valley in Europe, the peasants disport themselves with picturesque energy. But always there is the obtrusive sense of the camera, always the feeling that...