Word: comics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LYLE LOVETT: PONTIAC (MCA). Quirky, haunting roadhouse tunes with an underhanded comic flair...
TOLSTOY by A.N. Wilson. One of Britain's most accomplished comic novelists tackles a profoundly somber subject: a literary titan's turbulent relationships with God, Russia and women...
BEETLEJUICE The feel-weird movie of '88. Director Tim Burton's supernatural jape features comic-book ingenuity, a swell turn by Michael Keaton as a punk demon, and a delirious calypso sound track. Day-O will never sound the same...
...catalog essays by Christiansen and Carl Brandon Strehlke are a fine guide to the social background and doctrinal meaning of these religious comic strips. Packed with meaning, reasonable in size, this is the kind of show that the Met used to do superbly -- and now does not do often enough...
...wrong with American opera in general and the Metropolitan Opera in particular need look no further than Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where the Met last week uncrated its elephantine new production of Verdi's Aida. Can the nation's leading opera house really be serious about offering this animated comic book as art? While not a disaster on the order of last season's catastrophic Il Trovatore, the new Aida represents all that ails the company these days...