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...seems that the National Lampoon staff culled the poorest of secondary school bathroom graffiti to paste together their April issue. Nevertheless, a few rays of brilliance do shine through. In Stephen Kaplan's "White House Heartbreak." which appears in comic-book form, David Eisenhower begs his wife Julie to sleep with him. Julie is reluctant: "But what about my reputation? The newspapers... And Daddy's career? What if... What if I had a BABY!?" David comforts his bride, and while they embrace he assures her "Don't worry honey, I take those pills every...
...Bellini and Giorgione, and loves Renaissance perspective. He limns tiny images of skinned-looking women or bloated, lecherous men as zestfully as Bosch him self, and sets them against the wall of a squalid Roman slum. Surrealistically oozing globules and pustules contrast with saints' pictures and comic-book illustrations. The result is an emphatically modern version of everyday hell, but it is more than merely nightmare for its own sake. The squalor usually serves to set off the loveliness of some ver dant Tuscan mountain landscape, distantly viewed. Of Exterior Wall with Landscape, he observes, "One might say that...
...madness and vague promises until she rejects her lover, resigns her position as a doctor at a large hospital and finally renounces all her dignity. Lea becomes "It" in a series of progressively debasing games devised by Alvise. She searches frantically for a hidden ring, plays the roles of comic-book characters and chases Alvise blindfolded as he forces her to tumble into a cesspool. "You know I'll never make love to you," Alvise taunts her, but Lea's passion is so great that her nephew seduces her into the ultimate game-Mercy Killing. She cleans...
Some sort of plausible ecclesiastical drama might have been made from The Shoes of the Fisherman; but too much of the script and too many of the characterizations are comic-book distortions...
...question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all. He uses a language that explodes with comic-book words like "POW!" and "boing." His sentences are shot with ellipses, stabbed with exclamation points, or bombarded with long lists of brand names and anatomical terms. He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese. His outlook is partly cool, partly hysterical, and just slightly unconventional enough to make it provocative. The need for journalists like Wolfe is clear...