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...scenes Woodward and Bernstein sketch are by now legend, cackled over everywhere: Nixon praying on his knees with Kissinger, then pounding the carpet and sobbing; Pat Nixon spurning her husband's sexual advances- for 12 years; Nixon walking the White House halls at night, talking to portraits of former presidents...
...benign Winston Churchill, the "Man of the Half Century" (Jan. 2, 1950), to an atmospheric oil of a saturnine King Faisal, the Man of the Year (Jan. 6, 1975), by Bob Peak. Anwar Sadat's head is perched on sphinxlike paws in a pencil-and-ink sketch by Isadore Seltzer (May 17, 1971), while Peter Max produced a comic mixed-media collage for our "Is Prince Charles Necessary?" cover (June 27, 1969). The brooding poet Robert Lowell is given a crayoned zigzag crown of laurels by Sidney Nolan (June 2, 1967), while Boris Artzybasheff painted a blue-faced underwater...
...knowledgeability about banks and bankers, the Moneychangers is quite a simple moral tale. Its characters are for the most part either good or bad, so it is easy to tell, by observing what they do and think, where Hailey's sympathies lie--and if these associations alone don't sketch out an ideology, the action of the novel certainly does. Alex Vandervoort, the hero, is liberal; he lives with an intelligent woman lawyer, tries to have the bank help people in the ghetto, and is scrupulously honest. The villain, Roscoe Heyward, fluctuates wildly between extremes; he is either snooty...
Oldenburg's humor comes from his awareness and appreciation of the human element that supports his art. So his drawings can be hilarious, but they are never glib, or snide. A sketch such as Fagends in Hyde Park is funny because of the innocence and incongruity of the vision; the wit in seeing the bristles of a typewriter eraser as broccoli lies in yoking two seemingly disconnected things...
...mouse is subjected to some of the most fantastic variations of all; the eyes alone, for example, are drawn as teabags; window shades, or light switches. A "system of iconography" (also the title of a sketch) is derived from the mouse's circles and squares. Simplifying the mouse form, Oldenburg plays with it. He stamps it on everything, designs kites, banners, costumes in its image. Mice appear with bras on their ears, or half under water. Other things suggest mice to his roaming pencil: a map of New York City, an arrangement of pillows. What makes Oldenburg's outrageous associations...