Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comic strip becomes a hot issue in the jungle...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...long been owned by the nation's sole daily newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict with the Post-Courier. Because of translation problems, we're always behind them." In Australia, the Religious Press Association charged the affair...
...creature I have ever known?") and carefully italicized emphases. He tosses off one-liners (calling, for instance, his Aunt Sylvia "the Benvenuto Cellini of strudel") as if he has a stable of Borscht Belt writers churning out his material. On the psychiatric couch, Kepesh is a regular lie-down comic: "I cannot maintain an erection, Dr. Klinger. I cannot maintain a smile, for that matter...
Cruel but rich in comic relief, Chicago follows the murder trial of Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...