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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American colleagues. A Cartoon History offers compelling work of artists representing the whole ideological spectrum. On the political left are some superlative efforts from the World War II years: William Cropper's fascists, consuming the globe for dinner, and Saul Steinberg's Hitler, portrayed as a constipated hen. The progressives are matched in temper and tone by conservatives of the '50s: Joseph Parrish's conception of the U.N. as a Trojan horse, brimming with "alien spies"; Reg Manning's portrayal of General MacArthur's hat hemmed in by toppers belonging to The Appeasing Diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Editorial Cartoons: Capturing the Essence | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Mary Clifford was well cast as Kim, the "lucky" typical American teenager who becomes "dizzy and faint" at the thought of kissing Birdie. Richard F. Hope, who plays her hen-pecked father, is hilarious and fights back against female domination in his household with comical futility...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Sexism Put to Music | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

...Mother Hen...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

...HEART AND ONE SOUL. Hen Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Television Transplants | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...regional set-up gathers in its charges like an overprotective mother hen (or a maternal boa constrictor) from the five surrounding towns: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Goose Rocks Beach, Arundel, and Kennebunk Beach. For at least the last ten years the towns have been debating whether or not to build a new school...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

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