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...frame (6 ft., 200 lbs.) resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted) and his square-jawed resemblance to the comic-strip...
FRIDAY: Hall of Fame. The off-Broadway musical "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," is a comic-strip come to life. CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...performances because it dealt brutally with Israeli losses during the "war of attrition" with Egypt. "Toilet humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network last January introduced a show called Not Everything Is Overlooked, which mixed music and political satire...
...first monthly issue, bearing a cover picture of the comic-strip character Wonder Woman, appeared in July and conveyed a mixed bag of goods. Essays blaming both the shaving of body hair and the wearing of panties (the latter written by Germaine Greer) on male oppression seemed bent on completing the self-parody of Women's Liberation that various public bra burnings had begun. But a piece describing the workings of an internal combustion engine...
...plot of the Sellers movie involves a campaign by The Phantom -yes, the comic-strip hero-to extract the 90-year-old Hitler (played by Sellers) from the jungles of South America and bring him to justice. The climax: Adolf's appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The Speer bearers will be more sober. Sandy Lieberson, a partner in the British syndicate that owns screen rights to the book, says that while Hitler will figure in their movie, they will eschew a name actor for the role in order to avoid critical comparisons between their Hitler...