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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tattoo continues, familiar information floods the C. of C.: Milton Caniff is a cartoonist who draws a comic strip about Steve Canyon, a tall, blond, slightly stuffy Air Force aviator. Steve and his buddies will be portrayed in a new show on NBC television this fall. Best of all (boomlay, boomlay, boom) there is a local tie-in: Miss Columbia Mizzou, raffish blonde who shows up intermittently in the strip, is named after the University of Missouri, near which, in Caniff's fable, she once slung hash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Drums in Old Mizzou | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Reluctant Debutante (Avon; MGM) in its stage incarnation was the kind of drawing-room comedy that critics called "pleasant" for want of anything worse to say about it. But transferred to the screen and run through a high-speed Mixmaster of comic invention by Rex Harrison and Wife Kay (Les Girls) Kendall, this lukewarm cup of tea has been turned into cheery summer punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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