Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be that Saturday matinees offered dessert before dinner, a nifty Hollywood cartoon or three before the feature film. Daffy Duck would fume, but gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody...
Scoffers reckoned without Schwarzenegger's wry star quality: he is a bulkier-than-life creature who knows he's a cartoon. So his pecs-'n'-sex epics have become dependably profitable. And in the occasional election year, he makes a good movie. In 1984's The Terminator he played a killer cyborg -- typecasting for a terrific sci-fi parable. Now he teams with Director Walter Hill for an informal remake of Hill...
Maybe the low-key way the administration ran its campaign was its most effective strategy. The cartoon-illustrated, user-friendly brochures on the campaign's key issues were the most effective printed way to gain support. They instilled insecurity--questions like, "Would I get a raise?" or "Would I have a voice?" were answered by "Maybe, maybe not." A successful career woman (and mother) was picked to head the anti-union campaign and to appeal to a staff that is 83 percent female...
Last week's most frenzied bidding was for Warhol's stash of 152 cookie jars, mass-produced pottery from the 1930s and '40s in cutesy animal and cartoon motifs. At one point, two Manhattan businessmen faced off over two cookie jars and a pair of salt and pepper shakers in the form of a black chef and his wife. The final bid: $23,100 for a lot whose value Sotheby's had estimated at $100 to $150. "Spiritually, they are just wonderful," gushed Maria Olivia Judelson, wife of the victor. If so, then Cuban-born Businessman Gedalio Grinberg was truly...
...Andy's kitsch -- "collectibles" was Sotheby's more tactful label -- fetched upscale prices. A Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog beach towel and other Muppet memorabilia went for $1,760. A Fred Flintstone quartz watch, still bearing its original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...