Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milan, and in 1946, briefly in Chicago. Now, at 33, he hopes to stay in the U.S., has. already signed with the Met. He is happy that he makes people laugh, but he wants to do more serious roles than Don Basilio or Leporello. Says he: "I do the comic role because I have the nerve. But I like Boris Godunov better...
...Angeles Times ran a cartoon last month showing a hand clutching a pistol and a copy of a comic book called Sordid Crimes. The caption asked: "Do your children handle loaded guns?" The Times* was belatedly getting into the fight against the sex-and-violence comic books which are the bastard offspring of newspaper comics...
Last week the cartoon seemed prophetic: the Los Angeles County sheriff had in custody a 14-year-old boy who had poisoned a 50-year-old woman. He got the idea, and the poison recipe, he said, from a comic book. There were other alarming cases, too. A 13-year-old boy's parents came home from the movies to find his body hanging in the garage. At his feet was a crime comic depicting a hanging body. Two boys, 14 and 15, were caught committing a burglary. The crime comics they had with them had inspired the crime...
...voluntary association was already trying to clean up the 60-million-circulation comic-book field (TIME, July 12). In full-page magazine ads, National Comics Publications Inc. (Superman, etc.) was plugging the better comics as " a major moral force ... a highly salutary recreation...
...chain which ends at Key West, and to it comes a disillusioned veteran (Bogart) to visit his dead buddy's wife and father (Bacall and Barrymore). But the latter's hotel is already populated with a complete selection of mobsters including a boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle on a fog shrouded cabin cruiser...