Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind the tragi-comic white mask, Marceau winks at a spellbound audience, at himself, at the whole of humanity. He is a magical and magnetic artist, in the face of whose genius we can merely laugh, cry and be struck dumb...
...ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...
Already, he shows the imprint of his mentor, that mixture of the morally-incensed minor prophet of Zion with the more modern, less pious, Superman of DC Comic aura and Nietzchean ethics...
...Drew Pearson, who never called the subjects of his stories before they were printed, to Jack Anderson, who does, maybe someday it will pass from Jack Anderson, who doesn't seem to worry about in-depth investigating of long-range topics, to Jack Cloherty, who does. Stripped of its comic-book histrionics, the column might really do Zion some good...
...comedy later than tragedy. For instance, young actors always find tragedy much easier. It's always easier to immerse oneself emotionally in something; it's much more difficult to have a view. And comedy requires a kind of view of life, I think. The most important plays are the comic rather than the tragic ones. From Aristophanes onward the great commentators of life have been the satirists...