Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. A very funny novel about a domineering mother and her miserable teenage son. Friedman balances bitter humor and driving obsession to create an inimitable comic style...
...most interesting trend visible so far is an emphasis on sex. The TV men have also forsaken their experiments with ever longer shows. In fact, most of the new series are 1954-style, hardtop, 30-minute comic potboilers...
...needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...
...slightest tremor. Most of them are very slight, indeed. For example, last week's biggest one involved a man who had made his secretary his mistress but disapproved of his son's going out with the secretary's daughter. Yet, since all the other new comic and dramatic series are developed through broad caricature, the odd thing about this marathonical bore is that it is about the most realistic of the new shows that have opened...
...better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted no time bidding for the job, sending along samples of his work from the Adelaide Advertiser...