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The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters
Ralph Steadman dreams after Goya
Town, January 1968
1968 proved to be a turbulent year. Among Steadman's baleful progeny are from left to right:
* the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael;
* US President Lyndon B. Johnson (grinning)
* Labour prime minister Harold Wilson (forked tongue flicking);
* communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (in academic cap);
* Israeli defense minister General Moshe Dayan (in eye patch) next to...
* Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (two protagonists of the June 1967 Six Day War);
* Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (glasses and beard);
* "Mercenary" (in beret and goggles);
* Mike Jagger (lips);
* "Red Guard" (in Mao cap);
* Labor foreign secretary George Brown (biggest bat); and
* fluttering high above, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his new recruits, George, John, Paul and Ringo. |