Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three super-self-aware characters, dizzy from watching the way their little worlds turn, are given a satiric whirl by Playwright Murray Schisgal. Alan Arkin, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach are the comic dervishes...
...World War I hero with a prosthetic limb to prove it. The Socialists' lackluster Franz Jonas, 65, mayor of Vienna and a onetime Linotype operator, was not only unknown outside Vienna but had neither a university degree nor a "Herr Doktor" to his name. This inspired one comic to chortle: "Austria has a choice between a Holzbein [wooden leg] and a Holzkopf [wooden head...
...whoring, has-been ballplayer, turns in one stunning, tragicomic scene in which he drunkenly explains the torture of being unable to hit a curve ball. And in the just-released Cat Ballou, he does a double parody, first as the silver-nosed gun fighter and then as a wildly comic former gunman so booze-ridden he can barely ride. Either way, he seems sure of a supporting-actor Oscar nomination...
...shout out through refuse," he once wrote. "Merz was like an image of the revolution within me, not as it was, but as it should have been." But he was ahead of pop art in his imaginative use of materials. One of his last collages, For Kate, uses American comic strips, sent to him by a New York friend. He cut them up and reassembled them under a thin layer of transparent tissue paper. That was 1947-long before the world had heard of Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon paintings, or of "happenings" as living collages, or even...
...utopia rings false: "we want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi-comic, feminist pleas for equal status ("and Radcliffe, oh Radcliffe, how long...") bear little relation to her conclusion that Radcliffe girls leave after four years feeling that they" were never part of something." Many, many people at Harvard are no different...