Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promote individual religions anywhere in the paper." In a subsequent interview he says he has run much of Hart's religious material, excluding rare strips that could be taken for direct attacks on other faiths or were "very strongly proselytizing, as though it were advertising rather than a comic strip." Meanwhile, the current issue of Focus on the Family, a publication of Christian conservative James Dobson, chides those "determined to find offense" with...
...children of a businessman and a nurse, the boys created comic books, and the obsession continued into their 20s. "Jack Kirby comics interested us," says Andy. "We liked the idea of punching guys through brick walls and over-the-top action like that." But they connected as well with older, more revered sources. "The Bible seeks to answer a lot of relevant questions for man," says Larry. "In the film we refer to the story of Nebuchadnezzar; he has a dream he can't remember but keeps searching for an answer. Then there's the whole idea of a messiah...
...Burt Reynolds inability to covert our knowledge of his washed-up career into a slimy on-screen persona (what this implies about our judgment of people and stars is somewhat disturbing). Unfortunately, Johnson's acting skills aren't quite up to par (Tin Cup...never mind): his comic timing stinks and sinks one scene after another, not disastrously, since his character's smoothness is meant to fall short of his lust...
...twists and comic nastiness, and so people will like it. But I'm still more intrigued by the scene where Arquette's Sandra, brandishing all the cash she supposedly has, hopes to fast-talk an old lady into a cheap sale...and gets directed to an ATM down the street. We break through to this bit character, one of those extras who are usually just like us, or at least as dumb, and what do we get...but more of the same...
...Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...