Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family. His grandmother entertained him by reciting Longfellow. His twin sister, Loretta, an aspiring ballerina, pirouetted through the apartment. Their mother had studied to become an opera singer, instead operated an elevator to work for her children's education. Young Billy earned extra money by drawing his own comic books and selling them to school chums for a nickel. At 19, he hoped to become a fashion illustrator. But a chance meeting with a CBS casting director led to bit parts on various shows, and at age 23 he achieved success in the hit play A Taste of Honey...
...seduced by an aristocratic lesbian. Meanwhile, the threatened I.R.A. London offensive remains stalled, and a host of coconspirators barges into the complicated story. On this surface, The Family Arsenal glitters. American-born, Theroux has nonetheless acquired an ear for varieties of British speech. His book is crammed with comic dialogue and Pinteresque moments of tongue-tied malevolence. Descriptive passages are often telling and wise: "He had always hated public houses; they were dirty and uncongenial, the haunts of resignation, attracting men whose loneliness was not improved by their meeting one another...
...some of rock's best talent is on view. During convention week, the management has booked a bunch of folkies-Eric Andersen, Livingston Taylor, Mary Travers, Tom Paxton -who will presumably regale visiting delegates with songs of chiding irony and social import. The Convention, a group of comic actors, will open each show with irreverent improvisations on the day's events at the Garden. Up in Central Park, the Schaefer Music Festival offers excellent, inexpensive ($ 1.50-$3) outdoor entertainment. B.B. King, justly renowned for his blues-guitar virtuosity, will appear on July 12. Toots and the Maytals will...
READING MATTER. There are some 400 bookstores in Manhattan. There are a few emporiums whose wares cannot be duplicated anywhere else: the Supersnipe Comic Book Art Emporium at Second Ave. and 84th St. stocks bygone comic books; rarer ones, like the first Captain Marvel Adventures, retail for $800 and up. The Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop...
...garrulous old Jewish men, played with great sensitivity by Mike Kellin and Michael Egan, sit on a bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...