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Word: comically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano sonata-and they were married shortly after. He "detests" classical duets-"too rigid, too formal. I always hate my partner." He particularly detests Nijinsky's famous Le Spectre de la Rose. "Even if you dance it well, everyone says, 'Oh, Nijinsky!": Both Babilées prefer comic or dramatic ballets, "where we can act a part and play to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: High Jumper frorn Paris | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Rumors flapping out of the Bow Street Aviary last night suggested that a Lampoon spectacle would take place at noon today. Sources close to the Mt. Auburn St. comic magazine said that 'Poonsters were planning a mammoth balloon ascension from the steps of their building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Balloon Set To Rise at Noon | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

Cartoonist Capp, creator of the comic strip "Li'l Abner," will evaluate the effect of the comics on the movies. As a former Hollywood scenario writer, he should be able to compare the typical movie and comic strip audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Discussion Features Law School Forum Tonight | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

...Mozart's comic opera, Cosi fan tutte (last Met performance: 1928), will be redone from scratch-also in English-with new sets by Rolf (Don Carlo, Fledermaus) Gerard. Stage director: Broadway star Alfred Lunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bing's Plans | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...never catches the spirit of the best of his wartime sketches. Mauldin's line drawings were not only picturesque and funny; they also made a biting, authentic commentary on the lot of the miserable, unshaven, mud-caked footslogger. Up Front operates instead at the level of the comic strip, or the familiar Hollywood service comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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