Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, however, House of Flowers is somewhat victimized by its virtues. What gives it unity of tone gives it sameness also; what gives it playfulness makes it decidedly slight. Never robust, the plot consistently thins: from the rivalry of the bordello madams emerge no comic explosions, nor any satiric didoes from the gentility of the girls. In the second half, House of Flowers craves a sea breeze to dispel its island languor, a human note for its doll-like, bird-like world...
...million copies of horror comics sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have...
...December 1953, has dropped to thirteenth. The other four falterers (Bob Hope, Colgate Comedy Hour, Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Godfrey and His Friends} have plummeted further-they are no longer to be found even in the top 20 shows. The season's best new comic, George Gobel, has climbed to No. 17 and seems headed for the Top Ten before the year...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
Festival is so devoid of material that it would seem strange that any opportunities for comedy could be missed. There are so few to begin with. Nonetheless, Director Albert Marre could have made better use of several stock comic characters--the Chinese waiter, the deaf professor--who were never even allowed to fulfill their expected functions. In any case, the play is badly written, and the Spewacks should have realized it some time...