Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support for the ballot measure. But his arrest was so controversial in San Francisco, where local police had already declined to shut down the club, that the indictment had to be obtained in nearby Alameda County. Events had already brought Doonesbury into the picture. For a week Zonker, the comic strip's aging soul-at-large, lamented the bust on Peron's club and went desperately in search of alternative sources for the patients it left stranded. Unfair, said Dan Lungren, California's politically ambitious attorney general, who was criticized by name in the strip for ordering the bust...
Without a doubt Jackie: An American Life rejoices in investigating all of the comic possibilities of caricature and farce. The play's irreverence is accountable to no one perhaps except itself. As we would expect, Jackie rises above the outright madness and sordidness surrounding her; and it is one of the show's triumphs that this is plausible. Throughout she has remained somewhat aloof in an inaccessible world, protected by her acute moral sense...
...tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael's obsession with his heartless ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Erica Mitnick), who haunts his Carnegie Hall fantasies, asking steamy questions like, "Who was the first comic book character to have interdimensional sex?" In real life, she's been paying him weekly visits to reclaim possessions ever since they broke up. She took back all of her own stuff long ago, so she's moved on to his, which Michael happily yields to her so that...
...swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
...closed-doors philosophy; more than once we are privy to the sight of a loo and its occupant. Indeed, Maurice's entire career consists of extracting sparkling teeth and good cheer from frowning or bickering subjects. While sometimes the interludes where we see Maurice photographing clients offers comic relief (a goofy couple, for example), we're so conditioned to expect the overwhelming secrets behind a given scene that we do not rest for too long...