Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEWISH MOTHER culls some of the feebler witticisms from Dan Greenburg's fitfully satiric guidebook and further dilutes them with a few primitive racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home; yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...delusion that he is a swinger, Stan is, in self-dismayed fact, a thirtyish virgin. Given to incessant self-analysis and self-recrimination, Sylvia has strained the juices of life into psychologically labeled jars. The pair's mating dance is jittery and erratic but unfalteringly human. One wondrously comic blackout sequence in which Stan is baffled by bra hooks, stuck zippers and the location of a misplaced contraceptive could serve as a catalogue of the frustrating minutiae that can reduce seduction to helpless farce...
Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane's comic strip "Buz Sawyer" were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam-where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals' presence the hard...
...about Kate and Baba-now married, unhappily of course. Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images is about a lady executive who of course becomes disenchanted with comfort, possessions and conventional life. Brigid Brophy and Pamela Hansford Johnson are both writing about modern London; Brigid's is comic, Pamela's serious...
...could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...