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Word: cartoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back and forth. It is a rationally conceived design rather than an organic development informed by dramatic feeling. Laura Young's eloquent face is an incongruity here; her body's range of emotion is simplified to a perfunctory embrace or two, and authentic feeling is wasted in this brash cartoon anyway...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...hand, if you don't mind (or even welcome) a light, superficial portrait of Allen that amuses if not informs, go see it. Besides, the six short comic films that accompany the half-hour-long portrait of Allen are quite good, ranging from the couple-of-chuckles Betty Boop cartoon to the brilliant parodies of Bergman and Star Wars...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Woody, We Hardly Know Ye | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...Robert Reed, a leading actor in Roots and The Brady Bunch. Jarvis will also respond to questions from a live audience. Other members of the tax-cutting cast include former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and U.C.L.A. Economist Neil Jacoby. As relief from all the rhetoric, an animated cartoon will trace the history of the oppressed taxpayer from caveman times to the present. "Most people are not tuned in to political broadcasts," admits Stewart Mollrich, the show's writer. "The idea is to keep it lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Howard's Happy Days | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...sort of dreading reading the reviews that will talk mostly about the film," Brackman says. "King of Hearts is completely confection--King of Marvin Gardens is like a nightmare cartoon, and by comparison, this is like a Disney cartoon...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Critic On Stage | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Columbia, students called him Vitamin Z. At the White House, inner-circle Georgians refer to him as Woody Woodpecker, because his Dagwood-style haircut gives him the cartoon character look, and because he keeps rap-rap-rapping for the President's ear. His friends call him Zbig, and their one-word description is energetic. He thinks fast, acts fast, talks fast. Critics would say too fast, too compulsively and too impulsively. Even his trim body, angular face and darting eyes convey an image of intense energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rapping for Carter's Ear | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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