Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sculptor David McFall's statue of Winston Churchill [Dec. 15] is an impressive synthesis of the comic strip character, Alley Oop, and Churchill...
...capable of an unexpected humor. In his teens he was famed for his rendition of the "nose" speech from Cyrano de Bergerac?an act that involved masterful use of his own huge nose. And at his infrequent press conferences, he has employed his long, basset-hound countenance to immensely comic effect...
...Poteet has been banished from Steve Canyon in part because of a distant tie to Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls...
...expression changes so little that the spectator may find himself wondering which was witch. And Actor Stewart seems to be overwhelmed by Actress Novak's example. As the bewitched hero, he stumbles around most of the time with a vaguely blissful expression-rather like a comic-strip character who has just been socked by Popeye...
...medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling comic horror. It may not be literature, but it is a fairly painless way to decompress, for an evening or two, from the TV bends...