Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...
...drab drama was relieved by a few comic touches-such as the Soviet sector police's fatuous pretense of defending the building. As some of the crowd began to push prematurely against the iron gates, one cop stubbornly stuck to the timetable given him in advance. With a meticulous obedience that was very German and very Communist at the same time, he said: "No, you finish singing the Internationale and then...
...very last outpost of fine, imaginative illustration in America is the comic strip. That's where all the great illustrators...
Disquieting Tributes. Since the first one appeared eight years ago, a generation of book reviewers has ridiculed the Lanny Budd novels. Nothing is easier-sometimes it seems that they are filled with nothing but improbabilities and inconsistencies, with no subtler characterizations than those of a good comic strip. Yet reading the entire 6,237 pages gives the disquieting impression that the trouble with Sinclair's fiction is not that it is improbable, but that too much of it is all too literally true. Nothing in the account of Lanny's dealing with Roosevelt, for example, quite comes...
...clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace in 1931 at $10,000 a week) sang There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...