Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master was a new man again-even if some didn't like the new Picasso any more than they liked the last one. His mangled women and monsters of the war years had vanished like a nightmare. The nine new paintings were bright still lifes done with a comic strip's economy of line and color, and airy pastoral scenes with pipe-playing centaurs, a goddess and dancing goats. Picasso had painted his new pictures on the scene, behind locked doors (TIME, Jan. 13). The castle's old guide, Pierre, used to tell tourists that there...
...Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, it disappeared for a week from the columns of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Editor Edward Towner Leech had taken umbrage at a broad burlesque of the U.S. Senate...
Last week things were looking up. Francis X. Bushman was a hit playing a gregarious ham actor called Major Carson (reminiscent of the comic strip's Major Hoople) on The Rexall Summer (Theater. In a sudsy serial, Bob and Victoria, he oozed kindly wisdom persuasively enough to insure himself a berth on that show for some years to come. "My radio family," he explained cheerfully, "is so longevious that at this rate I should be in soap opera for 30 years...
...wife. Some of the best scenes between these two, especially those concerned with financial discussions, smack of the show which made father famous. But, since satire is not a strong point of the story, practically all enjoyment must be derived from pure humor--the humor of witty remarks and comic situations. The few celebrated bon mots which the head of the Day family utters are good in any company, but the comedy of situations, often centered about the children, is somewhat harmed by spotty acting which tempers the juvenile parts to mediocrity. Even much-raved-about Elizabeth Taylor seems...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...