Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...
...last week that the U.S. formally entered the space age. By week's end, in millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...
...gilded gambling resort in Las Vegas, shy, poker-faced TV Comic Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was dealt out of an 11,000-a-week hand for the second time in less than a fortnight (TIME, July 25). Reason: he again failed to draw a full house. After first firing Cox because his act, a medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic...
...What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...
...Comic Lewis is at his best when he is wildest: he gives a fine take-off of a choral conductor, dances insanely, impersonates Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart. Partner Dean Martin is better as a straight comic than as a singer. Otherwise, as the team goes through some tired slapstick movie routines, e.g., a chase on water skis, moviegoers may conclude that Martin & Lewis are headed for the fate that befell Abbott & Costello: all they do is make money...