Word: hens
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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...
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...
...Mother Hen...
...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...
...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...