Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons, more like ray guns than rifles. Their odd shapes, and the robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which in 1951 meant most of the French intelligentsia) assumed that the painting was a denunciation of some unspecified American war crime...
...have followed the comic strip For Better or For Worse since its inception, and I was saddened when the dog Farley died, as you noted in the tongue-in-cheek Milestoons section [CHRONICLES, May 22]. In fact, I wept at his demise and wondered why his owners, the Paftersons, did not. They looked worried and scared, but not one tear was shed for the hero that saved their little girl's life! Sara Hughes Midland, Michigan...
...cheerful, knowing way, the hit movie Casper mines this same dark soil. On its face, it is a high-gloss update of the "friendly ghost" who starred in 55 cartoons between 1946 and 1959, a long-running comic book and a short-lived 1979 TV series. Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents, including gag cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ghostbusters' Dan Aykroyd. The movie even has its own theme-park ride, a kind of human car wash. All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another...
Javier Romero "95 says his current feelings are summed up by a comic strip he recently saw: "An old white man asks this Black woman if it hurts her self-esteem to know that she got her job solely on the basis of her gender and race. She says no, and then asks him the same question...
...languishes for 20 years in a cruel dictator's prison. A wife passes that time in exile, faithfully awaiting his return. We know what's supposed to happen when he's released: a period of adjustment (serio or comic, according to taste) and then a triumphant assertion of true love's unconquerable power...