Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S STORY [FEB. 14] ON THE HOLLYWOOD FREE WORLD ASSOCIATION V. THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN IDEALS INDICATES NO EDITORIAL PREFERENCE FOR EITHER ORGANIZATION BUT REVEALS IN COMIC STYLE AN ANTI-HOLLYWOOD BIAS. WE FILM-MAKERS REALIZE OUR COMMUNITY IS A GORGEOUS SUBJECT FOR SATIRE. WE GRANT, OR ANYWAY MOST OF US DO, THAT WE ARE THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE. YOU CAN WRITE MORE JOKES ABOUT US THAN YOU CAN ABOUT PLUMBERS, UNDERTAKERS OR FULLER BRUSH SALESMEN. HOLLYWOOD IS GUILTY OF DELIBERATE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE LIVING WORLD. IT SEEKS TO ENTERTAIN...
...Birnam were more purely comic he would be Mr. Toad; if he were more purely tragic he would be Hamlet...
...chief failures are his, too. Some of the fun is painfully unfunny, because it is like a joker who outroars his audience's reaction. Some of the pity is not pitiful because it is smashed before it has a chance to crystallize. Most of the finest human and comic potentialities of the story are lost because Sturges is so much less interested in his characters than in using them as hobbyhorses for his own wit. His good friend and master, René Clair, is near the heart of it when he says, "Preston is like a man from...
...general, Composer Porter has relied on comic ditties instead of trying to dazzle the customers with languorous Latin rhythms. But out of a pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...
Until the P-63 is formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...