Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stacey (Fox) Thankfully, this smart sitcom was not the victim of its network's scratch-happy spirit. Now in its second season, the show about mismatched lovebirds in the making has given us a chance to feast on the prodigious comic gifts of Thomas Haden Church, who plays Ned, a voluble adman. If there is a more engagingly comtemptuous character on TV, we haven't come upon...
...since The Satanic Verses exuberantly details the protagonist's absurd fall from the grace of a wealthy Indian childhood into the hands of a madman who plans to kill him once the story ends--an interesting motif for this particular author. But the hero survives, and Rushdie's bountiful comic narrative triumphs...
...read in the Chicago Tribune that the comic-book industry is in the tank; sales of the Superman/Batman group, for instance, have declined 72% in the past three years. Then I read in the New York Times that the record industry is in "one of the most perplexing crises it has faced in decades," with new albums by such well-known groups as Hootie & the Blowfish moldering on the shelves. Is it safe to assume that the young people of this country are finally concentrating on their homework...
...question another way, If both rock music and comic books fade from the scene, what are we going to blame for the failure of the young people of this country to concentrate on their homework...
...foreseeable future, of course, most parents will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...