Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always seemed pretty artificial. But it is the basis for tangy Shavian broadsides whose substance hasn't dated even though their vocabulary sometimes has. One is a ludicrous ribbing of the medical profession, which still has its frightening share of faddists and licensed bunglers. Another is an equally comic argument for the arts in their endless debate with Philistinism...
...comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges to visit his home as an English peeress (her resemblance to the girl on the boat becomes a comic asset rather than a plot difficulty). She gets him to marry her-then on the honeymoon train so out rages him with fibs about other men that he quits the train in his silk pajamas. Of course he sails for the Amazon again and so does...
...sofa and land with his face in a plate of hors d'oeuvres, take a drenching of hot coffee, receive a mess of roast beef and gravy in his lap, endure numerous other accidents. They are all funny. More importantly, Stanwyck and Fonda play throughout with a comic agility matching Sturges' frothy script...
...truth lies far from either extreme. The "Nutcracker Suite" is strikingly beautiful, Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" is horribly realistic with the raw violence of the music matched by a dino saur death battle on the screen, and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hilariously comic--but Beethoven's "Pastoral" has become a bacchanalian nightmare and the Disney ballet which accompanies the "Dance of the Hours" is scarcely better than a Terry Toon...
...Comic Strips. Many grownups have an idea that comic strips of the lurid adventure type are bad for children (TIME, Feb. 24). Dr. Lauretta Bender of New York, who has three children of her own, and Dr. Reginald Spencer Lourie declared that, on the contrary, these wild yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk...