Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, using a slow film and a flash attachment, Creer took a series of photographs-of newspaper headlines, trademarks, comic strips-which he showed last week to a New York meeting of the Biological Photographic Association. The pictures were clear enough, considering the size of the film, but they were somewhat distorted because an eye lens is intended to focus on a curved surface, not on a flat film...
...make clear that pigs, sheep and steers do not necessarily see what their eyes "saw" when they were used as cameras. The image on the retina is "assembled" in the brain into a visual image. No one knows what the brain of a pig may make of a comic strip...
...detectives spend more time locked in combat with blondes than with criminals. Dragnet (alt. Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC), long a radio favorite, has become the best of the TV crime shows by tossing overboard all such TV cliches - from incendiary blondes and comic stooges to roaring gunfights and simple-Simon detection. Last week the TV Dragnet came back to the air after a summer vacation in the first of a new series of 47 filmed episodes. The suspenseful story of a man about to jump from an eighth-floor ledge, it was well acted, filmed and directed and undoubtedly Dragnet...
There was a myth about America . . . and what a myth!-one rubbed one's eyes at the crude stereotypes that stood for the characters, and the vulgar comic-book drama that passed for the plot...
...candidate one way and another (e.g., Northern Republicans wanted him to come out for a federal fair-employment-practices law, Southerners wanted nothing of the kind). His sources of information and advice ranged from Statesman John Foster Dulles to two Hillsdale, Mich, boys who sent him a Walt Disney comic book and asked for his "autograth...