Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth than Eye. Put out by some recent college graduates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who want to reach "all students, on all campuses, everywhere," it takes a leaf from Playboy: a nude centerfold that is somehow more appealing because the girl is not so slick and a rhyming comic strip about a bosomy heroine's scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable," he writes, describing...
...Comic Irony. Richler, 37, a Canadian who now earns his chips in London as a TV and film writer, delivers his blue bits with the relish of a nightclub comic shocking an audience of miniskirted grandmothers. It is totally irrelevant that the setting of the novel is England; despite its slapstick, Cocksure is well within the American mode of contemporary black humor that U.S. Critic Kenneth Burke has called "the drastic irony of paranoia...
...farther-out commentary is The Incredible Shrinking God, a long-playing collection of "sermons" by Manitoba-born David Steinberg, 27, a rabbi's son who studied Hebrew literature before becoming a comedian with Chicago's Second City troupe. Not religious in a formal sense, Steinberg's comic oratory is a pop version of God-is-dead theology. Steinberg explains that he picked that title for the record because "the traditional God is becoming harder to find in modern society all the time...
...real source is Miami's Donnelly Advertising Co., the giant outdoor ad agency. Donnelly failed to sell the idea to Gillette, but when the agency included a slide of the billboard as comic relief in its sales pitch at last summer's outdoor advertising convention in St. Louis, the boys instantly recognized it as just the thing to stimulate what they like to call "billboard awareness." Donnelly to date has sold 1,500 of the 24-panel posters to billboard owners in all 50 states at $8.50 each...
Director Finney sets the correct tone for his fable of reality once removed. But charging the atmosphere with a Pinteresque amalgam of the incongruous and the comic is not enough. The film rests on a script by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) that settles for cringingly arch character names (Smokey Pickles, Mr. Noseworthy) and a naive blend of symbolism and social critiscism. What is worse, Charlie's contempt for the traps and trappings of wealth cannot hide an underlying self-pity, accentuated by Actor Finney's eyes-closed, O-God-I'm-so-weary...