Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cartoonist Ralph Bakshi softens up the story. He makes Fritz into a harmless NYU romantic, circa 1967. (The date is a needless hedge, and a more potent campus might have made Fritz dangerous.) This doesn't work for much of Fritz: under Crumb lies agony, under Bakshi gas. The screen Fritz enacts the essential Crumb pose of a phony out for pleasure under moralistic guises. He sees through all the other phonies and beats them at their game by living out his fantasies in fact. But this Fritz is enveloped with his animator's love (he's even cuter facially...
...vessels) to grow into the cancerous mass. This growth appears essential; when tumors were experimentally isolated from blood supplies, T.A.F.'s effects were canceled out and no capillaries formed. As a result, tiny tumors literally choked on their own wastes and failed to grow beyond a state considered harmless. Folkman's discovery suggests that interfering with T.A.F. production could halt, or even prevent tumor growth. He and his colleagues are now searching for a substance to run this interference...
...suspect that the Peter Bogdanovich phenomenon will finally prove more interesting than any film he is likely to make. More than a mere maker of movies, he has resolved to be a director-cum- personality and so has entered the front line of media in-fighting. At its most harmless this includes the kind of toothless satire of such cultural balloons as The Sensuous Woman and Love Story. At its most petty it is a bitter parody of New York critic John Simon, who made the grievous error of disliking The Last Picture Show. (Simon has retaliated by calling Barbra...
...Government to force up the market price of eggs by killing hens." Findley was particularly piqued that the bill singles out female chickens for liquidation. "The gals of Women's Lib," he told the House, "will surely ungirdle their sharpest clawings for those who do nothing -not even harmless, painless vasectomy-to the males, the perpetrators of production. Surely they will bare their beaks and demand roostercide instead of henocide...
...like him really do--I'm constantly surprised at the amount of men who get up at 4 in the morning in the hunting season and go out with a gun in the miserable weather and try to kill some harmless bird. What is this but some very deep need to get one with nature somehow, something that's remotely denied...