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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whistle, Johanna?" asks a beau showing off his belle in Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna? "Can you sing? Eat a peach? Gargle? Babble?" Johanna (a falsetto Frommermann) dutifully answers, with suitably rude sound effects, until the lover says sternly, "Can you be quiet, Johanna?" The comic portrait of a doomed courtship, in three minutes flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harmony Is Still Heavenly | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...bubble gum to mint? Really, it's all about the roots. Who was there in elementary school and junior high? Not the Wrigley's twins, not any strangely favored lifesaver, not any "curiously strong" mint. It was, always has been, and always will be good old Joe, with a comic wrap to keep that smile on your face and a familiar flavor to keep you chomping and blowing bubbles all throughout that boring science b section. Drop the act-go back to the Bazooka. J.Y. HYMAN...

Author: By M.k. Root, | Title: BREATHALYZER | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful: Thenewly-internationalized comic superstar seems tobe out of luck in the Best Actor race. TheAcademy's aforementioned xenophobia will take itstoll, surely, but there's another problem as well.It's not a great dramatic performance. As in thedirecting category, Benigi's portrayal of therelentlessly mirthful Guido is for the film but bythe same token is necessarily unextraordinary.Bengini is an actor of great comic talent, butthat can only take him so far. The whole point ofLife is Beautiful is that Guido must keephis dopey, funny face on from start to finish inorder to combat the horrors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar is Beautiful Saving Private Oscar Thin Red Oscar Oscars in Love Oscar | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

DIED. JOHN L. GOLDWATER, 83, creator of Archie, ageless teenage comic-book character. First drawn in 1941, Archie comics are now published in more than 35 countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Interestingly, Riley pointed out that some works, including a colorful Japanese screen depicting a series of rooms from above, use architecture to create conceptual boundaries, separating events that occur in different times, thereby creating a narrative-almost like frames in a comic book...

Author: By Judity Batalion, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MoMA Curator Builds Windy Castles at the Gardner | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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