Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his co-star in a new play. As she prattles on in bed, telling endless postcoital anecdotes about her grandmother, Mastroianni stares straight ahead, bereft, bored, glazed, luckless, irked, satisfied but uncompelled, paying dearly now for his pleasure. It is a scene Mastroianni manages with the kind of comic melancholy that comes from depths too seldom sounded...
Crimson track coach Bill McCurdy reminds you of those aging superheroes that are popular in comic books. The ones with the gray hair and the classical Greek physiques...
Peter Roche, a white British capitalist, has been on this island long enough to see that the facile distinctions between blacks and whites and easy judgments about imperialism and shamytowns are false ones. When you use such terms, he cautions a white arrival, you begin to think only in "comic strips," without saying anything. Gross appearances are much too deceiving, he suggests, as the truth lies in the welter of relations and facts belied by appearances...
...roots of his molars; and the "red of aggression" that appears in a slum child's eyes is easily confused with the "red of weeping." Naipaul is constantly turning things inside out--people's clothes, their bodies, their thought--until what is apparent is shown to be merely the comic strip veneer...
...more involved at times when he de-emphasizes the light and slide show. (Some of his dances fuse light and movement at their most essential level; others use costume and light traditionally, as secondary arts.) Somniloquy, an all-dance duet, turns Suzanne McDermott and Gerald Otte into fast-moving comic caricatures, Nikolais's way of treating a potentially sexual situation. He has the couple move with such highly-charged energy that they forget their partner is of the opposite sex. At these times Nikolais emphasizes traces of movement rather than the precise shapes of movements. The dancer thinks only...