Word: comicalities
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...Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from a sixth edition of Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation and a display of Wonder Woman comic books under the rubric of lesbian pornography, which is particularly lame when you consider that someone could have gone to Times Square and got some better examples of girl-on-girl action. Curators can be so lazy...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...
...Summer of Love" can be found at superior comic stores and the publisher's website
...Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion; his outbursts are no longer meaningless cries into a void, but rather are to some self-improving purpose. And, as Barry uses his emotional problems to become a happier human being, Sandler channels his flair for comic instability and rage in such a way that it makes him a more effective and believable dramatic actor; when an evolving Barry, looking for Lena, lets loose at his sister midway through the film, the lack of artifice in Sandler’s performance is remarkable to behold...
...fourth-quarter collapse is not at all reminiscent of the meltdowns characteristic of the 5-5 Harvard teams from 1999 and 2000. Those squads, which all juniors and seniors will remember, engaged in spectacular game-ending debacles marked by a comic inability to close out Ivy games against lesser teams...