Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oscar should have left well enough alone. For, true to his convictions, his wife is in love, but with another woman (Luisa de Santis). The comic and sexual implications of this bizarre menage-a-trois are the subject of Lina Wertmuller's Sotto Sotto (Softly, Softly...
...newest film The audience gets several tedious verbal and visual lectures on the beauty of female sexuality. Large sculptures of ancient fertility deities serve as a backdrop as Oscar's wife discusses the oppression of women through the ages. Most of the male characters are portrayed with the same comic flatness that marked and marred Steven Speilberg's The Color Purple. Men fight ridiculous fights, and say ridiculous things in bed, while they garner physical pleasures from Wertmuller's beautiful bisexual females...
Berke Breathed has been injured in a plane crash and is not expected to be writing his comic strip for another four-to-eight weeks. We will resume printing new strips when Berke resumes writing them...
Berke Breathed has been injured in a plane crash and is not expected to be writing his comic strip for another four-to-eight weeks. We will resume printing new strips when Berke resumes writing them...
...right into a limestone wall of the new atrium lobby at the Equitable Life Assurance Society's New York City headquarters. Finished in a month of work and ready for a gala formal unveiling next week, the 68-ft. by 32-ft. painting has Lichtenstein's trademark comic-book dot matrix and Swiss-cheese motif. Working for a major corporation for the first time "did not present any problems," says the iconoclastic artist. "Anyone who commissions a work of art has to get the money from somewhere. This was no different...