Word: comicalities
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...vision for the new U.S. factory. Unlike the mammoth facilities of the past that focused on large production runs, the factory that Duesterberg's group has in mind is one that makes customized, sophisticated products with technology embedded into every part and process. "We contrast that with the old, comic-book picture of manufacturing, which is making one piece of equipment a million times," he says...
...economy. However due to an already frightened averaged U.S. citizen, who sees the theatrical display of red, yellow or whatever colour as a true indication of an ever-looming terrorist re-attack, Bush will again will the Presidential elections. I will not be puzzled but rather entertained by his comic appearance in the military camouflage, i.e during his campaigns. I love Americans, what a group of skilled entertainers. Khanyisa Ndzuta Fort Beaufort, South Africa...
...Jackie Chan films (playing his stepmom in Drunken Master II) and four with Stephen Chow. Her finest fantasy role was as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio and Executioners, in which she joins forces with Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh to save the world. Even in this comic-book chaos, she has an iconic Mui moment: she hears that a child has died, and a teardrop falls from her eye to trickle down her super-heroine mask...
...years. Like a boy sidling up to the pharmacy counter to ask for, demand, his first condom, the 13-year-old Child Corliss sought out Playboy at distant drug stores, put my 50 cents in the palms of blind newsies. Before Playboy, the only magazines I had bought were comic books. Hugh M. Hefner had connived to introduced me both to the publishing industry and to public stealth at a single ... stroke...
...comic writing, The New Yorker had the edge with (to choose four names spanning seven decades) S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece...