Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flanked by the opposition cheering section on the right and the politely applauding Hah-vahd alums, parents and administrators on the left, Section 18 has historically been the rallying point for Crimson hockey fans, as well as a source of comic relief between periods...
...boom. Author Levin's job is harder. He must convince his readers that The Boys from Brazil is more than just a sick joke. He cannot. Levin's primitive literary skills aside, the turning of Josef Mengele into a mad scientist from the pages of a 1940s comic book requires more than a suspension of disbelief. It also requires a suspension of taste. Exploiting such a monster for entertainment and profit is enough to give evil a bad name...
...joke" is the wrong word. Oldenburg's art is not comic, though it is humorous. He has no attitude of superiority, he is pulling no tricks on Everyman. He finds his own magic sexually mysterious himself. "My forms ...are constantly engaged in promiscusous intercourse and may turn up as almost anything," he says. He presents his work as a sort of subconscious process of spontaneous generation rather than a plotted contrivance to substitute one thing for another. He is often gently self-mocking, quietly deflating his own balloons. Works like his Paste-up for mitt print with Bob poke...
...informative than a Sunday supplement piece on the mind of the assassin. (Travis keeps a diary, just as Arthur Bremer did before he shot George Wallace.) What Scorsese is good at is moments-chance encounters between unlikely characters, awkward conversations between ignorant people, men and women trying, often with comic poignancy, to understand a world in which the old verities offer neither guidance nor insight. He can be an effective film maker, given a loose, unpretentious story like Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, where there is less temptation to make grand statements about the modern condition. He seems...
...this point, Hoban wisely refrains from offering a madcap chase sequence replete with careening police cars and lovably inept thieves. The escapade is indeed comic, but only in the ease with which it is pulled off. The turtle keeper does not simply agree to look the other way while his charges are stolen; he packs them into traveling crates himself. Their mission routinely accomplished, William and Neaera find that no one has noticed...