Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single, obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inability of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. Where Naughton and a comic wonder of a cast succeed is in bringing back the theater's vanishing breed-real people...
...Donald Duck become a masochist? Does the disappearance of Mickey Mouse's goodness presage a decline of the West? How much power is conveyed in "bang" and "pow"? Such weighty questions were debated last week at Bordighera, Italy, at the first international exhibition of comic strips...
With Annie's ingenious aid, Daddy will soon break out of stir-but the ca per went on without the endorsement of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. Offended by the comic strip's pejorative attitude toward mental institutions and mental health, Courant Publisher John R. Reitemeyer suspended Annie for two weeks-"until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might...
...comic wonder of a cast, Marjorie Rhodes, as the bridegroom's mother, is the standout, batting out a caustic aside with a batted eyelash. If Father Wolfit is the cakes and ale of the play, Mother Rhodes is its gin and bitters. But the entire evening belongs to blessedly real people who are not crammed with half-baked oddities but full of bread-fed humanity...
...after a family quarrel, Jean Starr decided to commit suicide. When she opened her bedroom window in Zanesville, Ohio, she was afraid to jump and compromised by trying to beat out her brains with a hairbrush. This serio comic vein runs throughout her new book, which describes a lifelong love affair with art and with artists, "those people who have been most meaningful...