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Aristotle observed that "drunken and harebrained" women most often had children like themselves, "morose and languid." Eighteenth-century British physicians reported that drinking gin led not only to the widespread debauchery of the time-which was vividly depicted in Hogarth's etchings-but also to a spate of "weak, feeble and distempered children." Modern medicine has only recently confirmed the ancient folklore. Alcoholic mothers often do bear children with a host of birth defects: skull and facial deformations, defects in the cardiovascular system and mental and physical retardation...
...only right for a caricature set in the 18th century, the City Center Acting Company's stage looks like a Hogarth drawing: all prison bars and a commandingly placed gallows and overflowing with prostitutes and thieves, all hungry though some of them are fat, all sharply etched and ornately dressed. Kevin Kline is a fine Macheath, and the rest of the cast is pretty uniformly good, too, although it's hard to understand a few of the actresses when they start to sing. John Gay, the friend of Pope and Swift who wrote the play, scattered popular ballads and songs...
...Woolfs, who married in 1912, remained affectionate companions and social allies throughout the years. With one simple printing machine they established a publishing house, the Hogarth Press. Virginia became an able compositor. As a writer she received a consistently good press, and because her novels were so close to her private imaginings, she felt a good notice was "a certificate of sanity." With increasing assurance, she began using in conversation the marvelous gifts of perceptiveness that mark character studies like Mrs. Dalloway. Perhaps the culmination of her public life occurred in 1928 when she gave the Cambridge lectures that became...
Here they all are, the rogues, doxies, gin swillers, pickpockets and highwaymen of 18th century London, singing, swaggering and skylarking their way across the stage like an animated Hogarth engraving. "All is human," one of the characters says, and it is the swirling tide of recognizable humanity that has kept this play-with-music so buoyantly alive for almost 250 years...
Robert Crumb is a kind of American Hogarth, a moralist with a blown mind. The gallery he has created in underground comic books-from the gnomic sage Mr. Natural, the Priapus of the Midwest, through such creatures as Angelfood McSpade to that morsel of 13-year-old jailbait, Honeybunch Kaminski-constitutes Head City's sharpest and funniest view of American life. And perhaps the most pornographic. His fantasy unchecked by the strictures of mass circulation, Crumb gave back to cartooning the scatological vigor and erotic exuberance it had during the Regency, and then some...