Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; music by Gene de Paul; lyrics by Johnny Mercer) sometimes gloriously explodes, sometimes damply splutters, as a big Broadway show. Suddenly, with something fine and deafening from the orchestra, suddenly with something fine and floor-shaking from the chorus, Al Capp's comic-strip community bounces to life. At other times, behind musicomedy goggles, Capp's satiric eye notes and needles skulduggery, stupidity, conformity. But there are numerous occasions when the Capp menagerie, let out of their neat newspaper cages, noisily lose their way stumbling,in too many directions...
Whether characters who are full-fashioned in pen and ink can ever do as well in flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot...
...Washington Post and Times Herald, which runs Columnist Drew Pearson on its comic page, let him get on the editorial page last week-as the target of a devastating letter. Signed "Nostradamus" (but known to the Post, which would identify him only as "a Washington magazine editor"), the letter writer noted that Pearson was reputed to score 85% in his "predictions of things to come." By recalling the columnist's Jan. 1 predictions for 1956, Nostradamus showed that Pearson had indeed approached 85%-but wrong. Among the predictions...
Concluded the Post's letter writer: "Please keep publishing Pearson on your comic page. He is so much funnier than all the rest. As to that series on Pearson now running in another famous publication [the Satevepost's "Confessions of an S.O.B."], it seems to me your esteemed contemporary misses the point. To paraphrase that old vaudeville joke-it isn't so much a question of who called that political prophet a so-and-so; the real point is who called that so-and-so a political prophet...
...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...