Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
...sense, were Australians, who long ago combined the Scotch pronunciation of his name ("Mingis") with a comic-strip character called "Ming the Merciless," dubbed his regime "The Ming Dynasty...
...good old American comic strips have long served a dual audience: kids read them for yuks, while grownups pretend to absorb all sorts of profound meanings from the billowing balloons. Television, on the other hand, has stuck to a single standard: simple-minded cartoons for kids, simple-minded programs of every other variety for grownups. Now all that is changed. Television has brought the comics to adults. It comes in the form of Batman, a new twice-a-week hyperthyroid series on ABC. Produced with an enormous amount of pulp and circumstance, it has become an overnight smash...
...months Cartoonist Charles Schulz, 43, had been playing with the notion of having Snoop's doghouse burn down. Now the idea doesn't seem so comic-nor does Schulz's nickname, "Sparky." Last week his one-story studio in Sebastqpol, Calif., caught fire and burned to the ground. There were almost some roasted Peanuts, but Schulz's daughter Meredith raced in and saved a batch of strips he'd drawn for February. Snoopy is-whew!-safe...
...Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator, man the prey. "The ideal woman is a man," he wrote to Actress Ellen Terry -a bleak thought whose comic possibilities were brought out by My Fair Lady's Professor Higgins. ("Why can't a woman be more like...