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...among six politicians who are featured this week in the first of a series of articles on important local and state races. To give readers an unforgettable visual impression of these individuals, many of whom are not nation ally known, TIME has called upon the U.S.'s premier caricaturist, David Levine. This issue contains his depictions of Kunin and DiPrete, along with spidery portraits of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and his challenger, Governor James Hunt...
Rovere has a caricaturist's instinct for the grotesqueries of stump and smoke-choked room, of presidential campaigns, congressional hearings ("Nothing that Washington has to offer comes closer to theater") and state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration...
...selected diaries from 1932 to 1962. Despite the sackcloth prose, Muggeridge made his reputation as a restless journalist, BBC wit, and the scapegrace editor of Punch. When he is not ostentatiously wishing for death or lamenting his carnal desires for this or that mistress, he remains a world-class caricaturist...
Parody is Christopher Durang's native element. He can mimic and spoof manners, trends and styles of speaking in ways that inflict the sting of truth just as surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as if he had been brooding on deeper things all along-like, say, man's fate. It is as if the playwright as jester suddenly dropped his mask and wished to be acknowledged as a thinker. These two one-acters at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater display both Durang...
...eight hours of sleep; I've nearly stopped drinking and always worry about what I eat now"--the sinewy senior keeps running in perspective. Rogers is as much in her element out on the course as she is in her ornate Claverly bedroom, poring over political cartoons of French caricaturist Honore Daumier, the subject of her current History thesis...