Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked to name his profession, Rowland Emett would probably answer "Fantasticator." No other term could remotely convey the diverse genius of the perky, pink-cheeked Englishman whose pixilations, in cartoon, watercolor and clanking 3-D reality, range from the celebrated Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway to the demented thingamabobs that made the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a minuscule classic. It is no wonder that he has been dubbed by admiring Americans the British Rube Goldberg. But that, with all due deference to the late Rube (who was a great admirer of Emett), is to compare Edward Lear...
...Rowland Emett has had more than trivial genetic lift. His grandfather was Queen Victoria's court engraver, his father an amateur inventor. Emett himself has put wires together and lines on paper since early childhood. At 13 he devised a novel gramophone windup mechanism-just as gramophones succumbed to electricity. Undeterred, he became a stellar and sometimes lunar cartoonist. During World War II, some equally dotty boffin at the Air Ministry decided from Emett's complicated cartoons that the artist-a man as mild as Lewis Carroll's Dormouse-should be commandeered to help build nongentle-manly...
...Rowland Evans and Robert Novak are nationally syndicated columnists who have predicted that few blacks will vote this year...
...whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms. So were a number of Eastern sophisticates who were visibly impressed by the Price pad. Said Georgetown Columnist Rowland Evans: "Their place is so sumptuous that you'd have to have a party there every night to justify...
...different way, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak elude the columning category they seem naturally to fit into-that of reporters rather than commentators. Reporters too, of course, have their obligations (a college thesis could be written about how Woodward and Bernstein, or Theodore H. White, reveal their most useful sources by the praise they bestow upon them in passing). Despite good Washington connections, Evans/Novak usually give a one-legged performance, lacking balance. They early developed an animus toward Jimmy Carter and reported so many hidden obstacles in his way that if Carter had had to overcome them all, his nomination...