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Word: comic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the skatepunks hanging around in the T Pit are neat, head over to Newbury Comics, in the Garage. Newbury sells some wicked cool music, concert tickets, t-shirts, posters and--oh yeah--comic books...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Learning Outside the Harvard Classroom | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...endorse the black cause in theory, yet not know any blacks socially and thus fawn on or patronize them. When the intruder starts to analyze The Catcher in the Rye in scholarly jargon, the hosts are spellbound by his vocabulary and miss the fact that his rap becomes comic nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Con Game | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...without wit or feeling. Screenwriters John Fasano, Jeb Stuart and Larry Gross labor to arrange a plausible reason to reunite Murphy's smooth crook, Reggie Hammond, with rough cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) and place them in the kind of violent situations and give them the kind of rude comic exchanges that made the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Search of Eddie Murphy | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...CINEMA: The best comic-strip movie yet: Dick Tracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 18, 1990 | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 18, 1990 | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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