Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...effect is reminiscent of that of Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo. His forest scenes in volume one especially remind one of Kelly's Okefenokee swamp. All of Gonick's volumes, however, show a great attention to visual detail which only comes in the cartoonist who is able to sketch superbly but who's having a bit of fun drawing comics...
...from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage of modern art, Georges Braque's painting is shown in black and white; Christo's sketch is in color. In order to furnish the third edition with a fresh look, two sections go under the gliterary titles of Colorpedia and Alphapedia. Translation: pages full of pictures, and items arranged...
...hands. The Japanese buyers did not even come out for a Van Gogh still life that was expected to make $12 million to $16 million at Christie's Impressionist and modern sale two weeks ago. It too was bought in, at $9.5 million. However, a fine Van Gogh ink sketch was bought by a New York dealer for $8.4 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a drawing...
This season, however, Broadway has three new musical productions that reclaim the giddy simplicity of the past. Only one, the Caribbean fable Once on This Island, is entirely new. Buddy, a biographical sketch of rocker Buddy Holly, who died in 1959, naturally features his old hits. And Oh, Kay! straddles the line between being a revival of the 1926 Gershwin success and an imaginative reworking of its raw material. Strikingly, these stories of boy meets girl all take place long ago or far away. Apparently our times remain too cynical for headlong romance close to home...
Disheartened by their mothers' guilt during the '70s and their older sisters' exhaustion hauling baby and briefcase through the career traffic of the '80s, today's young women have their own ideas about redefining the feminine mystique. When asked to sketch their futures, college students say they want good careers, good marriages and two or three kids, and they don't want their children to be raised by strangers. Young people don't want to lie, as their mothers did, when a baby's illness keeps them from work: they expect the boss to understand. Mommy tracks, daddy tracks, dropping...