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Time after time, Feiffer was asked to do caricatures of people ranging from Napoleon to Senator Kennedy or Fidel Castro. Most of the characters in his own cartoons, according to Feiffer, are not people he has really seen, but rather stereotypes "filtered through our general mass culture." "In order to point out the things you want to point out," he explained, you have to take an image and "distort it slightly" by running it through "a cockeyed mirror...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...
Commenting on the phrase, "commuter espirit de corps," students ranged from humor to bitterness. "Will be formed when Napoleon is appointed Master," wrote one wag. "You meet happy people on the MTA," another improvised. "Ridiculous and hollow," "frightening artificiality," and "a rationalization for dissatisfied commuters"--these were other reactions, together with "Pleasant in many ways, but causes a provincial, cliquish atmosphere," and "Definitely true--too much, perhaps makes us clannish." This sentiment was echoed in other parts of the poll...
...took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince...
...life became a charade of frustration and fear, and Wolfe's melodramatic style is well suited to convey the unreality of it all. Trotsky liked to say that the snowy volcanoes he could see from his windows were not extinct but dormant. But could the Red Napoleon really believe that his walled house was an Elba, not a St. Helena? He had tasted power, and missed it so much that he was delighted when simple Mexicans thought of him as a prince who had fallen (hence Wolfe's title...