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59-585: Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame . He wrote the animated short Munro , which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to

118-562: A 1971 film, Feiffer scripted Robert Altman 's Popeye , Alain Resnais 's I Want to Go Home , and the film adaptation of Little Murders . The original production of Hold Me! was directed by Caymichael Patten and opened at The American Place Theatre, Subplot Cafe, as part of its American Humorist Series on January 13, 1977. The production ran on the Showtime cable network in 1981. Feiffer moved to Shelter Island, New York in 2017. He wrote

177-634: A Senior Fellow at the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program. He was in residence at the Arizona State University Barrett Honors College from November 27 to December 2, 2006. In June–August 2009, Feiffer was in residence as a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College , where he taught an undergraduate course on graphic humor in the 20th century. Feiffer has married three times and has three children. His daughter Halley Feiffer

236-496: A boarder while a Chicago , Illinois , art student as grist for his comic mill, and featured the picaresque peccadilloes and bickering of its residents, presided over by the no-nonsense Martha Hoople. Our Boarding House began September 16, 1921, scoring success with readers after the January 1922 arrival of the fustian, blustery Major Amos B. Hoople, Martha's husband, who'd returned after some long sojourn. "Hoople has been compared to

295-563: A dissection of popular social and political neuroses. The success of that collection led to his becoming a regular contributor to the London Observer and Playboy magazine. Director Stanley Kubrick , a fellow Bronx native, invited Feiffer to write a screenplay for Sick, Sick, Sick , although the film was never made. After first becoming aware of Feiffer's work, Kubrick wrote him in 1958: The comic themes you weave are very close to my heart ... I must express unqualified admiration for

354-521: A low-paying job when he found out that Feiffer "knew more about him than anybody who had ever lived," said Feiffer. "He had no choice but to hire me as a groupie." Eisner considered Feiffer a mediocre artist, but he "liked the kid's spunk and intensity", writes Eisner biographer Michael Schumacher. Eisner was also aware that they both came from similar backgrounds, despite his being twelve years older. They both had fathers who struggled to support their family, and both their mothers were strong figures who held

413-527: A real hooplehead lately, like a kid they let out of Creedmoor [Psychiatric Center] by mistake.'"). "Hooplehead", as used by the character Al Swearengen on the HBO Old West television series Deadwood , is an anachronism as it was "probably derive[d]" from Major Hoople. One etymologist , without giving citation, said, "The producer and head of the scriptwriting team, David Milch , has been reported as saying in essence that he picked something out of

472-565: A single issue of Standard Comics ' Major Hoople Comics (1943). In 2005, Leonard G. Lee's Algrove Publishing reprinted Ahern's cartoons in Our Boarding House, 1927 as part of its Classic Reprint Series. The Major Hoople radio series began on NBC 's Blue Network on June 22, 1942. With Arthur Q. Bryan in the title role, the 30-minute program aired on Mondays at 4:05 p.m. on the American West Coast and 7:05 p.m. on

531-640: A springboard into other projects. He has had retrospectives at the New York Historical Society , the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts . His artwork is exhibited at and represented by Chicago's Jean Albano Gallery. In 1996, Feiffer donated his papers and several hundred original cartoons and book illustrations to the Library of Congress. In 2014, Feiffer published Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel through Liveright Publishing . Kill My Mother

590-448: A staff cartoonist at The Village Voice where he produced a weekly comic strip. Feiffer's strips ran for 42 years, until 1997, at first titled Sick Sick Sick , then as Feiffer's Fables , and finally as simply Feiffer . After a year with the Voice , Feiffer compiled a collection of many of his satire cartoons into a best-selling book, Sick Sick Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living (1958),

649-586: Is a graphic narrative initially anthologized in Passionella and Other Stories , a variation on the story of Cinderella . The protagonist is Ella, a chimney sweep who is transformed into a Hollywood movie star. Passionella was used as one part of the 1966 Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock Broadway musical The Apple Tree . His cartoons, strips and illustrations have been reprinted by Fantagraphics as Feiffer: The Collected Works . Explainers (2008) reprints all of his strips from 1956 to 1966. David Kamp reviewed

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708-720: Is an actress and playwright. A second daughter, Kate Feiffer, is the author and playwright of "My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life" and other works. His third marriage took place in September 2016, when he married freelance writer JZ Holden; the ceremony combined Jewish and Buddhist traditions. She is the author of Illusion of Memory (2013). Cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators / artists in that they produce both

767-752: Is as acute as any that is being written in America today. Dialog aimed at sophisticated minds, usually with the purpose of shaking them out of sophistication into real awareness. Feiffer published the hit Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living in 1958 (which featured a collection of cartoons from about 1950 to 1956), and followed up with More Sick, Sick, Sick and other strip collections, including The Explainers ; Boy, Girl. Boy, Girl. ; Hold Me! ; Feiffer's Album ; The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler ; Feiffer on Nixon ; Jules Feiffer's America: From Eisenhower to Reagan ; Marriage Is an Invasion of Privacy ; and Feiffer's Children . Passionella (1957)

826-508: The Kitchener, Ontario , pop band known as Major Hoople's Boarding House charted a top-30 Canadian radio hit with the song "I'm Running After You". Their songs "You Girl" reached #80 in 1976, and "Someone" was #89 in 1980. The first recording of the term "hooplehead" appears in 1980, in Dennis Smith's Glitter and Ash ("The old man said, 'Speakin' of Maureen, you know she's been acting like

885-571: The Los Angeles Times , the London Observer , The New Yorker , Playboy , Esquire , and The Nation . In 1997, he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times , which ran monthly until 2000. He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry,

944-648: The Republican elephant . Comic strips received widespread distribution to mainstream newspapers by syndicates . Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists (Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979) defined the selection criteria: Many strips were the work of two people although only one signature was displayed. Shortly after Frank Willard began Moon Mullins in 1923, he hired Ferd Johnson as his assistant. For decades, Johnson received no credit. Willard and Johnson traveled about Florida , Maine, Los Angeles , and Mexico, drawing

1003-495: The 18th century, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Following the work of Hogarth, editorial/political cartoons began to develop in England in the latter part of the 18th century under the direction of its great exponents, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson , both from London. Gillray explored the use of the medium for lampooning and caricature , calling

1062-452: The 1965 book The Great Comic Book Heroes . I want to write about marriage. I think the most interesting story is how men and women get on with each other, the terms they accept to live together and survive together, the compromises they make, the betrayals of themselves and of each other, and how, despite the fact that over and over again they find that it can't possibly work, it still seems to be preferable to anything else they know about. In

1121-513: The East Coast. The series was written by Jerry Cady (1903–1948). Patsy Moran had the role of Hoople's wife, Martha. Conrad Binyon and Frank Bresee portrayed Hoople's "precocious little nephew", Little Alvin. Mel Blanc played the star boarder, Tiffany Twiggs. The radio series ended April 26, 1943. No recordings of the Major Hoople radio program are known to exist. (Coincidentally, Arthur Q. Bryan

1180-591: The Rat With Women , in 1963. In 1965, he wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes , the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979, Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum . By 1993, he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote

1239-550: The Rat with Women , 1977's Ackroyd ) and several children's books, including Bark, George ; Henry, The Dog with No Tail ; A Room with a Zoo ; The Daddy Mountain ; and A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears . He partnered with The Walt Disney Company and writer Andrew Lippa to adapt his book The Man in the Ceiling into a musical. He illustrated the children's books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Odious Ogre . His non-fiction includes

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1298-601: The Sunday strip from 1977 on. The finale had Hoople finally striking it rich: a multimillion-dollar project needed a minor patent that he had obtained many years ago. In the last strip, Hoople and Martha embarked upon their new lives of wealth. Ahern once revealed the origin of Major Hoople: Major Hoople was based on an old fellow I knew quite well when I was growing up. He had been in the Civil War and to hear his tall stories you'd think he had advised Grant and Sherman on every move of

1357-567: The book for a musical based on a story he wrote earlier, Man in the Ceiling , about a boy cartoonist who learned to pursue his dream despite pressures to conform. The musical was produced and directed by Jeffrey Seller in 2017 at the Bay Street Theatre in neighboring Sag Harbor, New York . Feiffer is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook Southampton . Previously he taught at the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern University . He has been

1416-590: The book in The New York Times : His strip, usually six to eight borderless panels, initially appeared under the title Sick Sick Sick , with the subtitle 'A Guide to Non-Confident Living'. As the Lenny Bruce -ish language suggests, the earliest strips are very much of their time, the postwar Age of Anxiety in the big city; you can practically smell the espresso, the unfiltered ciggies, the lanolin whiff of woolly jumpers. Feiffer has written two novels (1963's Harry

1475-401: The comics industry rival Michael Chabon 's Pulitzer Prize–winning fictional portrait. Two years in the military gave Feiffer fodder for the trenchant Munro (about a child who is drafted). Such satirical social and political commentary became the turning point in his lust for fame, which finally happened, after many rejections, when acclaim for his anxiety-ridden Village Voice strips served as

1534-432: The daily from 1959 on. Freyse's 1960s assistant, Jim Branagan, drew the strip from 1969 to 1971, succeeded then by Les Carroll. The Sunday strip came to an end on March 29, 1981, and the comic continued as a daily feature until December 22, 1984, when Carroll and writer Tom McCormick retired. Others who worked on the strip included writers Wood Cowan in 1946, Tom Peoples on the Sunday strip circa 1968, and Phil Pastoret on

1593-401: The end, it becomes rather heroic. —Jules Feiffer, Playboy interview Feiffer also wrote and drew one of the earliest graphic novels , the hardcover Tantrum ( Alfred A. Knopf , 1979), described on its dustjacket as a "novel-in-pictures". Like the trade paperback The Silver Surfer ( Simon & Schuster/Fireside Books , August 1978), by Marvel Comics' Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , and

1652-640: The family together through hardships. "He had a hunger for comics that Eisner rarely saw in artists", notes Schumacher. "Eisner decided that there was something to this wisecracking kid." When Feiffer later asked for a raise, Eisner instead gave him his own page in The Spirit section, and let him do his own coloring. As Eisner recalled in 1978: He began working as just a studio man – he would do erasing, cleanup ... Gradually it became very clear that he could write better than he could draw and preferred it, indeed – so he wound up doing balloons [i.e., dialog]. First he

1711-400: The field with a more serious intent than my opiate-minded contemporaries. While they, in those pre-super days, were eating up "Cosmo, Master of Disguise"; "Speed Saunders"; and "Bart Regan Spy", I was counting up how many panels there were to a page, how many pages there were to a story – learning how to form, for my own use, phrases like: @X#?/; marking for future reference which comic book hero

1770-652: The hardcover and trade paperback versions of Will Eisner 's A Contract with God , and Other Tenement Stories (Baronet Books, October 1978), this was published by a traditional book publisher and distributed through bookstores, whereas other early graphic novels, such as Sabre ( Eclipse Books , August 1978), were distributed through some of the first comic-book stores. His autobiography, Backing into Forward: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2010), received positive reviews from The New York Times and Publishers Weekly , which wrote: His account of hitchhiking cross-country invades Kerouac territory, while his ink-stained memories of

1829-524: The home. Feiffer began drawing at the age of 3. "My mother always encouraged me to draw", he says. When he was 13, his mother gave him a drawing table for his bedroom. She also enrolled him in the Art Students League of New York to study anatomy. He graduated from James Monroe High School in 1947. He won a John Wanamaker Art Contest medal for a crayon drawing of the radio Western hero Tom Mix . He wrote in 1965 about his childhood: I came to

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1888-490: The interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies. After Ahern left NEA in March 1936 to create a similar feature at a rival syndicate, he was succeeded by a number of artists and writers, including Wood Cowan and Bela Zaboly , before Bill Freyse took over as Our Boarding House artist from 1939 to 1969. Others who worked on

1947-751: The king ( George III ), prime ministers and generals to account, and has been referred to as the father of the political cartoon. While never a professional cartoonist, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the first cartoon published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754: Join, or Die , depicting the American colonies as segments of a snake. In the 19th century, professional cartoonists such as Thomas Nast , whose work appeared in Harper's Weekly , introduced other familiar American political symbols, such as

2006-585: The literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , webcomics , and video game packaging . A cartoonist's discipline encompasses both authorial and drafting disciplines (see interdisciplinary arts ). The terms "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or "comic book artist" refer to

2065-634: The nation, including magazines, and were published regularly in major publications such as the Los Angeles Times , The New Yorker , Esquire , Playboy and The Nation . He was commissioned in 1997 by The New York Times to create its first op-ed page comic strip, which ran monthly until 2000. Feiffer's cartoons were typically mini satires , where he portrayed ordinary people's thoughts about subjects such as sex, marriage, violence and politics. Writer Larry DuBois describes Feiffer's cartoon style: Feiffer had no stories to tell. His main concern

2124-458: The office of one of his favorite cartoonists, Will Eisner . Eisner was sympathetic to young Feiffer, as Eisner had been in a similar situation when he first started out. He asked Feiffer, "What can you do?" He answered, "I'll do anything. I'll do coloring, or clean-up, or anything, and I'd like to work for nothing." However, Eisner was unimpressed by Feiffer's art abilities and did not know how he could employ him. Eisner ultimately decided to give him

2183-475: The picture-making portion of the discipline of cartooning (see illustrator ). While every "cartoonist" might be considered a "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist", not every "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist" is a "cartoonist". Ambiguity might arise when illustrators and writers share each other's duties in authoring a work. The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth , who emerged in

2242-540: The present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner . There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit . In 1956, he became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice , where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including

2301-579: The scenic structure of your "strips" and the eminently speakable and funny dialog ... I should be most interested in furthering our contact with an eye toward doing a film along the moods and themes you have so brilliantly accomplished. By April 1959, Feiffer was distributed nationally by the Hall Syndicate , initially in The Boston Globe , Minneapolis Star Tribune , Newark Star-Ledger and Long Island Press . Eventually, his strips covered

2360-595: The screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols , and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman . He was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dramatist's Guild. He lives in upstate New York with his wife JZ Holden and their three cats, Mimi, Jackson and Dezzdemona. He is currently working on a visual memoir. Feiffer was born in The Bronx , New York City, on January 26, 1929. His parents were David Feiffer and Rhoda ( née Davis), and Feiffer

2419-456: The sentimental naturalism of Abbie an' Slats , the [Preston] Sturges -like characters and plots of others, with cadenced dialogue. He recalls that Will Eisner 's Spirit rivaled them in structure. And no strip, except [Milton] Caniff 's Terry [and the Pirates] , rivaled it in atmosphere." After Feiffer graduated from high school at 16, he was desperate for a job, and went unannounced to

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2478-432: The series, The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel , was published by Liveright in 2018. Feiffer's picture book for young readers, Rupert Can Dance , was published by FSG in 2014. Feiffer's plays include Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), Knock Knock (1976), Elliot Loves (1990), The White House Murder Case , and Grown Ups . After Mike Nichols adapted Feiffer's unproduced play Carnal Knowledge as

2537-442: The similar Room and Board for King Features Syndicate . Our Boarding House "passed into the hands of a bewildering array of artists and writers" including Bela "Bill" Zaboly at The Comic Strip Project, before Bill Freyse (the father of the American actress Lynn Borden ) took over the art for Our Boarding House from 1939 until his death in 1969. Writer Bill Braucher scripted from 1939 to 1958, followed by Tom McCormick on

2596-476: The strip included Jim Branagan and Tom McCormick. The Sunday color strip ended on March 29, 1981; the weekday panel continued until December 22, 1984. In 1921, Gene Ahern created the comic strip Crazy Quilt , starring the Nut Brothers, Ches and Wal. That same year, NEA General Manager Frank Rostock suggested to Ahern that he use a boarding house for a setting. Ahern initially used his own experiences as

2655-478: The strip while living in hotels, apartments and farmhouses. At its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, the strip ran in 350 newspapers. According to Johnson, he had been doing the strip solo for at least a decade before Willard's death in 1958: "They put my name on it then. I had been doing it about 10 years before that because Willard had heart attacks and strokes and all that stuff. The minute my name went on that thing and his name went off, 25 papers dropped

2714-563: The strip. The primary boarders were the cynical Clyde and Mack, and the only somewhat more trusting Buster. According to comics historian Allan Holtz, a multi-panel Sunday strip was added on December 31, 1922. This Sunday page had a series of topper strips , beginning with Boots and Her Buddies , which ran from September 12, 1926 to October 18, 1931. The next week, Ahern's The Nut Bros began, featuring loony siblings Ches and Wal in pun-filled, vaudevillian bits of business. This ran until June 6, 1965. For some of The Nut Bros' run, there

2773-443: The strip. That shows you that, although I had been doing it ten years, the name means a lot." Societies and organizations Societies and organizations Our Boarding House Our Boarding House is an American single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association . Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from

2832-485: The type created on-screen by W. C. Fields , but was probably closer to Falstaff ," writes comics historian Maurice Horn . "A retired military man of dubious achievement like Shakespeare 's [comic figure], he boasted of soldierly exploits that were perhaps not all invented, and his buffoonery sometimes concealed real pathos." That character depth diminished as the comic became more popular, with Major Hoople becoming "the one-dimensional figure of fun most people remember" of

2891-559: The war, telling them exactly what to do every morning. He even insisted he had fired the first shot. He was quite a character and everyone knew him very well. He called himself "General" in spite of the fact that he had only been a top sergeant in the Army. The General was one of those men who always put up a $ 10 front with a dime in their pockets — a natural subject for cartooning. There were comic book reprints in Whitman's Crackajack Funnies and

2950-429: The way people talked, without using contrived dialogue. Eisner recalls that Feiffer "had a real ear for writing characters that lived and breathed. Jules was always attentive to nuances, such as sounds and expressions" which made stories seem more real. After working with Eisner for nearly a decade, he chose to start creating his own comic strips. In 1956, after again first proving his talent by working for free, he became

3009-560: Was always amazed by what he let me get away with. It shows how close and tight the relationship was, that he let me do that parody. He had great generosity of soul. —Jules Feiffer They collaborated well on The Spirit , sharing ideas, arguing points, and making changes when they agreed. In 1947, Feiffer also attended the Pratt Institute for a year to improve his art style. Over time, Eisner valued Feiffer's opinions and judgments more often, appreciating his "uncanny knack" for capturing

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3068-616: Was an extra panel filled by a series of different titles running in tandem, including: Comic Scrap Book (1932), Silly Snapshots (1932–1933), One in a Million (1934–1945), Mister Blotto (1935–1946), Major Hoople - Jobs I Would Like (1936–1937), Rummy Riddles (1936–1937), Brainwavy (1938–1939), Honks from Otto Auto (1938–1939), Postcard Pests (1938–1940s), Screwy Scenarios (1943), Looney Letters (1943–1944) and Scientific Corner (1946). The panel cartoons mostly disappeared after 1946, although Mister Blotto did return sporadically until 1957. Ahern left NEA in March 1936 to create

3127-503: Was doing balloons based on stories that I'd create. I would start a story off and say, 'Now here I want the Spirit to do the following things – you do the balloons, Jules.' Gradually, he would take over and do stories entirely on his own, generally based on ideas we'd talked about. I'd come in generally with the first page, then he would pick it up and carry it from there. Our fights were always collegial. Never once did [Eisner] pull rank on me. I

3186-470: Was mostly attracted to the way they told stories. "What I loved best about these comics was that they created a very personal world in which almost anything could take place", Feiffer says. "And readers would accept it even if it had nothing to do with any other kind of world. It was the fantasy world I loved." Among his favorite cartoons were Our Boarding House , Alley Oop and Wash Tubbs . He began to decipher features of different cartoonists, such as

3245-652: Was named a Vanity Fair Best Book of 2014 and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2014. In 2016, Feiffer published Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel , a prequel to Kill My Mother . Cousin Joseph was also published through Liveright Publishing, and was a New York Times Bestseller, named one of The Washington Post 's Best Graphic Novels of the Year, and was nominated for the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. A third book in

3304-555: Was raised in a Jewish household with a younger and an older sister. His father was usually unemployed in his work as a salesman due to the Depression. His mother was a fashion designer who made watercolor drawings of her designs which she sold to various clothing manufacturers in New York. "She'd go door to door selling her designs for $ 3," recalls Feiffer. The fact that she was the breadwinner, however, created an "atmosphere of silent blame" in

3363-583: Was swiped from which radio hero: Buck Marshall from Tom Mix; the Crimson Avenger from The Green Hornet  ... Feiffer says that cartoons were his first interest when young, "what I loved the most." He states that because he couldn't write well enough to be a writer, or draw well enough to be an artist, he realized that the best way to succeed would be to combine his limited talents in each of those fields to create something unique. He read comic strips from various newspapers which his father brought home, and

3422-461: Was the actor who first voiced the role of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Bros. cartoons, opposite Blanc's Bugs Bunny.) The Saalfield Publishing Company , the maker of Little Big Books, published Major Hoople and His Horse under the ancillary imprint Jumbo Books (listed as #SS41 1190), in 1940. The 400-page hardcover book was written and drawn by the panel's successor cartoonist Bill Freyse. In 1975,

3481-445: Was to explore character. In a series of a dozen or so pictures, he would show the shifts of mood that flickered across the faces of men and women as they tried, often vainly, to explain themselves to the world, to their husbands and wives, to their mistresses and lovers, to their employers, to their rulers, or simply to the unseen adversaries at the other end of the telephone wires ... It would be no exaggeration to say that his dialog

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