Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Soviets and Americans erupted in laughter when a cartoon figure presenting Soviet conceptions of Americans was shown. Bohr said. One of the caricatures depicted a scantily dressed woman riding horseback on a dollar bill, she said...
Another powerful image: Wall Street millionaires arrested for insider trading and taken off in handcuffs. Not long ago, the "go for it" mentality of untrammeled capitalism was a virtue in the culture of Reaganism. Now that culture is being questioned. The Rambo story, which was a cartoon of Reaganism's individualist machismo, has been discredited by the escapades of Oliver North. The enduring ghost of Viet Nam returns not in the cretinous revenge fantasies of Sylvester Stallone but in Platoon, a movie that confronts the ambiguous mess and tragedy of America's mission in Viet Nam. The show that...
...voluptuous and deadly. Neither of those adjectives applies to Nancy Reagan. But after she was widely credited with organizing a coup by telephone against former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, the First Lady was depicted last week as a power-hungry manipulator more devious than any cartoon creature...
...others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles (perhaps all nuclear weapons; it is impossible to get the story...
Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...