Word: cartoons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...because they have to look realistically at the alternative. It was summed up in a cartoon that I love to cite, when Brezhnev was portrayed as saying to a Soviet general, "I liked the arms race better when we were the only ones in it." They have to know that we are not going back to our window of vulnerability that existed before we did our military refurbishing. They have to know that whatever they do is going to dictate our course in that regard. And they also have to know that industrially they cannot compete...
...attracted to the poor childish male more out of pity than passion? Gowan is hooked. His head, the resting place for a dead Siamese cat of hair, is filled with the stirrings of teen love; and his will, which had always moved by shrugs, now be comes a Koren cartoon of shaggy-doggedness. The poet will propose marriage. The nymph will break his heart...
Trudeau might have anticipated a few of the problems. Cartoon figures cannot-maybe should not-move, let alone sing, dance and shamelessly mug; and Doonesbury never had the fairy-tale simplicity of Little Orphan Annie or Peanuts, both of which survived their trips to the musical stage more or less intact. Perhaps realizing this, Trudeau streamlined and cutesi-fied his characters. The result is a modest libel on the real Doonesbury. It might as well be called Archie and Drughead...
...noticeably absent in Miami. Suarez, 34, a wealthy attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city commission, openly appealed to the Cuban hunger for political control of the city. Little Havana was plastered with signs for "nuestro alcalde" (our mayor), and one particularly crude political cartoon distributed by Suarez's organization portrayed Ferre in a phone booth talking to Fidel Castro. Cuban radio stations conveyed the message that "no one but a Cuban is pro-American enough for our interests...
...also furious at the French for selling five Super Etendard fighter-bombers to Iraq, with which Iran is at war. President Sayed Ali Khamene'i and Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi have vowed "retribution" against the U.S. and France. The Iranian newspaper Ettela'at published a cartoon depicting Uncle Sam and French President Mitterrand being crushed to death by a huge hand bearing the legend "Lebanese Muslims...