Word: daffyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week the imposing galleries and auditoriums of New York City's Museum of Modern Art will be turned into a barnyard. A stuttering pig, a frazzled black duck, a wily coyote, an amorous skunk, a pussycat with a paunch, a tiny yellow bird and, to be sure, the world...
Oh yeah? What's art, doc? You mean those six-minute strips of animated paint and ink that served as anarchic baby sitters for a couple of generations of Satur- day-matinee kids? A duck getting its beak blown askew by an irate hunter is art? Well, yeah, when the...
Not every Warner's cartoon is so heavy on the cordite and flying feathers. Some go in for the big soulful eyes, pastel prettiness and comforting moral of the traditional Disney cartoon. Feed the Kitty (1952), the acme of Jones' career, is a fable about a bulldog who falls into...
By the end of the year, MOMA visitors and cassette buyers should understand what Critic Manny Farber realized about the Warner's cartoons in 1943, "That ( the good ones are masterpieces, and the bad ones aren't a total loss." It would be fine if films with such titles as...
Humor helps, especially in a form that usually gives off a flat glare of one-dimensional optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional...