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...cartoonists. Says Bill Mauldin, at 53 a. 35-year veteran of the editorial page: "Cartoons are getting better, more and more away from labels. Readers are more savvy. It is less and less necessary to put names on things. The trend is more interesting drawing, less complicated captions." To sharpen his point, Mauldin spent last semester teaching a course in his profession at Yale. "I deliberately started with a nondrawing bunch," recalls the most technically proficient cartoonist of his generation. "What counts is the thinking. A drawing with authority helps give authority to an idea, but there...
...goaltender for the Yardling squad last year, Petrovek was frustrated. Although the squad posted a strong 14-4 record, he didn't find the competition keen enough to sharpen his play...
...spin off to her own production. Her new series has relocated her in Manhattan, where Rhoda has actively searched for an apartment, a job and a man-and miraculously found all three. She has also found a supporting cast that rivals Mary's: Harold Gould (Pop), who helped sharpen The Sting; Nancy Walker (Ma), a former stage comedienne whose timing could be used to set observatory clocks; Julie Kavner (Rhoda's sister Brenda), a fresh face with an oversized appetite and talent to match. Rhoda has even been given a fiance, Joe (David Groh). On Oct. 28 they...
...surcharge levied on corporate profits. But to encourage businessmen to expand capacity, increase production, and sharpen efficiency, Congress would also be asked to raise the investment tax credit on equipment bought by most firms from its present 7% to 10%, and for cash-strapped power utilities the rate would go from 4% to 10%. The corporate surcharge should yield about $2.4 billion in revenue, though almost all of that would go into the increased investment allowance. One argument for such surcharges is that unlike a gasoline tax, they would not raise retail prices. Even so, asking for any kind...
...those psychotic artists whose scribbles are only, or mainly, of interest to analysts, painted many of his best works in the asylum. He labored in a solitude, a vacuum of response, which might have crushed another artist. But it may be that Dadd's enforced seclusion helped sharpen the obsessive quality of his inner vision. Behind bars, time and detail never end. The evidence is up in London's Tate Gallery this summer through August: poor Dadd's first one-man show, more than 200 oils, watercolors and drawings, including a series of mysterious "sketches...