Word: huey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manyof the actors manage mediocre-to-good performances despite the interpretive and technical difficulties. Waxenberg provides the play with its only redeeming qualities. His excellent and evocative characterization of a small-town Huey Long is, however, diminished by the inconsistency of other actors' interpretations...
...symbolize: "Greenwich Village make-out men, wine and cheese parties...bosses who thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
Jules Feiffer's America: From Reagan to Eisenhower, the cartoonist's belated 25th anniversary album, is valuable not only for Feiffer's witty, ironic insights but also for its telling social history. By mixing Bernard and Huey--and a host of other unnamed husbands, wives, lovers, and children--with Ike, Jack, Lyndon, Dick, Jerry, Jimmy, and Ronald, Feiffer's collection uniquely bridges the gap between the timeless New Yorker genre of cartoon and the dated, sharply topical political humor of a Herblock or an Oliphant. The combination effectively gives Feiffer's particular perspective on how one segment of the country...
...section with a snappy summary of his motivating psychology. "During the 'Ike Age,'" he writes, "the economy prospered, the middle class grew, the attention span died." People had simple political worries--The Bomb. Accordingly, the cartoons centered on muddled fears of nuclear war and confrontation with communists. Bernard and Huey's associates are obsessed with nonconformism and the nations' apathy...
...psychological barbs to join the crowds heaping more topical abuse on Nixon. Chronicling "Happy Hooligan" Ford, "Jimmy the Cloud" Carter and "Movie America" Reagan, Feiffer proves to be a less adept political commentator than social observer. Despite occasional flashes, he falls victim to the overdone, obvious punchline. Bernard and Huey disappears, and with them Feiffer's magic...