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...when the name of Joseph Bell, 15, who had been missing since March 3, was added to the list. Atlanta has a worsening problem in other crimes as well. The city's black police chief, George Napper, who has a Ph.D. in criminology, sees his job in grim cartoon-like terms. Says he: "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your purpose is draining the swamp...
COMIC OPERA is a genre that glories in stylization. The simple joys of highly rouged prima donnas pouting with vanity, sighing village simpletons and cartoon-strip gestures flourish at Lowell House this weekend in Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, a production which remains unabashed and comfortable in its use of devices that have pleased audiences for centuries--and balances them well enough to sustain its momentary lapses into camp and slang...
DIED. Michael Maltese, 72, pre-eminent cartoon animator and writer who, starting in 1937, helped create such characters as Henery Hawk, Sylvester Cat and Road Runner, and invented countless comic calamities for them and others, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and the Flintstones; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
...sets, and many use television--remember, Tess is an anchorwoman--to give the stage a busy, electronic feel. And Craig as a cartoonist yields an elaborate set of video projections of his work, including one song during which he does a duet with an animated version of his own cartoon. For all the technological hoopla, the song characteristically falls flat--for the simple reason that a poor singer is doing a dreary tune. The most sophisticated set in the world can't help that...