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...these programs is a frank and total lack of pretense. They all seem to proceed from the belief that a television series should not aspire to any greater intellectual or emotional depth than the comic books that seem to have inspired them. The dialogue is apparently borrowed from old Batman balloons. Brightly lit and crudely shot, the visual style indeed reminds one of comic art at its least sophisticated level...
...rebellion against his class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman getup. The owner of the Olympic, a toupeed madman who calls himself Thor Erickson (R.H. Armstrong), spies on Mary Tate through a peephole in the floor, finally goes berserk after inhaling a noseful of poppers and, in the film's scariest scene, tries to rape her and murder Craig...
...about the new Sonny and Cher dolls? Wind them up and they break apart. Well, not exactly, but starting in May, kids who are bored with their Barbies and Kens will have pint-sized versions of the TV couple to cuddle. That's when Mego International, makers of Batman, Robin and Star Trek dolls, will launch a $1 million ad campaign to market 12½-in. versions of Sonny and Cher to the moppet set. The Sonny doll will come with a twelve-piece wardrobe (including a sparkling silver lame jumpsuit), while the little Cher will have 32 costumes...
Last week CBS and the Block Drug Co. combined to make the unlikeliest gunfighters since Batman and Robin. Together they had stood off the 1 million-strong National Rifle Association and its allies, the firearms manufacturers and game-preserve associations. That is more than Congress has been able to accomplish...
...contest should be no exception. Columbia is even worse than usual and seems headed for a perfect 0-9 record. Princeton trounced the Lions 40-6 last week, and if the weak Tigers can win by 34, then Harvard should have about as much trouble handling Columbia as Batman had with the Joker...