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...first of the "three greatest events of our century," Freud's discovery of the unconscious, is presented much like a TV series, a splicing of Masterpiece Theater and The Roadrunner Hour. It features hordes of comic-strip Nazis goose-stepping into the life of the Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything...
DIED. Georges Remi (nom de plume: Hergé), 75, Belgian artist-creator of the internationally known comic-strip chronicles of Tin tin, the perennially youthful and sparky reporter-adventurer who first appeared in a Brussels newspaper and went on to star in 23 books that have sold 80 million copies in 30 languages and enchanted three generations of children; in Brussels...
...trouble is that Graves' zeal to overcome glass-box monotony has led him into the increasingly popular, mystic fantasy world that is populated by Tolkien's hobbits, Dungeons & Dragons, sundry comic-strip characters, and the likes of the rubbery movie star E.T. It is a world that is almost beyond beauty or ugliness; almost, because the Portland Building is ugly. Unfortunately, Graves' irrational games have electrified architecture students everywhere, and they are now imitating him. He has become their Pied Piper...
...Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first for any author. Garfield Bigger Than Life, Garfield Gains Weight and Garfield at Large, which has been on the list for an amazing 84 weeks, have sold more than...
...halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses, works of art, asking prices and responsibilities are "awesome." The only sound on the hushed peaks of High Art is the labored twanging of Hoving's exclamation points. He sounds like a comic-strip parody of Winckelmann. "My tree!" he erupts on seeing the cross in the bank...