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...popular gag of the wondrous jet age is "Breakfast in Berlin, lunch in London, dinner in Detroit-and baggage in Bombay...
...times, Thiebaud has been a gag cartoonist, a cinema director, and an advertising art director. Now he teaches painting at the University of California's Davis campus. "New realism," says Thiebaud, "certainly relates to advertising art-cropping, directness, noninvolvement with the product. Abstract expressionism said you had to be involved, to search for individual consciousness and sensibility. The new realists, or Pop artists, say it's possible to be cool, not have a personal feeling for the object. The new artist is saying maybe you can do your art with ease, without any involvement...
...highway sign's last line is no longer a gag in Pleasantville, a farm center near Des Moines, where friendly people now call one another Communists or John Birchers, 19 of the town's 34 teachers have quit, and replacements cannot be found to teach 700 children...
Such growing leniency of the courts in their consideration of mental injuries is reflected in the lawyer's gag that defines emotional trauma as "a state of mind precipitated by an accident, stimulated by an attorney, perpetuated by avarice and cured by a verdict...
...been going around with a fellow a reasonable amount of time supposed to go to bed with him or not?" Not, sniffs Robertson, a chaser who has remained chaste. Then his favorite dish (Jo Morrow) arrives for breakfast, and off they go into the wild blue of a running gag about brother and his broad in search of a bed. Meanwhile, Jane picks up Rod Taylor and decides that she had better start conforming without further delay to contemporary standards of morality...