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Word: jungular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maybe his pen and his personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel, he gave outsize snouts. Many women he saw as birds: Lynn Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn and others are long-necked swans. He was drawn to larger-than-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

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