Word: chastely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RUNNER-UP Meet My Staff. By Patricia Marx. Illustrated by Roz Chast...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...approach six top women illustrators in one week and have them all say yes is pretty wonderful." The women, for their part, think it's pretty wonderful to get challenging work in what is still a male-dominated field. "Drawing for a living is a tough business for everybody," Chast says, but adds that the career does offer certain advantages for women because they can set their own hours, work from home and spend time with their children. (Chast has two: a son, 8, and a daughter...
...Everybody Really Hates Me, by Jane Read Martin and Patricia Marx (HarperCollins; $14). Adults in Roz Chast's funny-because-they're-not-funn y New Yorker cartoons look like blobby 11-year-olds, so she's a natural to illustrate the stirring tale of Patty Jane, unjustly punished for bopping her little brother. ("I did not hit Theodore. I touched him hard.") To teach the world a lesson, she decides to stay in her room forever. Snit-having Jennifers will recognize a master...