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...down to await the Archangel Michael. ... Soon, Dexter appeared in a hooded robe." Many of the artists see no reason use verisimilitude or even be particularly sexy. Ben Catmull's "Howard," shows a chubby guy who gets embarrassed that his bathtub fantasies keep devolving into strange penile animals. "Splish Splosh" are the only sounds in the cutely-drawn piece. H.G. Feekes tells an apparently true story about not having sex with the emaciated, bruised woman who stays in room "21." Even the most explicit of the pieces, Rick Altergott's "Mile High Club," a wordless four-pager depicting a callisthenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fresh Look at Porn Comix | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...austerities of Minimalism were taken to be the drastic and morally bracing purge needed after the increasingly routine, splish-splosh indulgences of the would-be heirs of de Kooning, Pollock et al. One thing that late AbEx clearly showed was that nothing is easier to feign than the marks of intense emotional feeling. Those marks too become conventional signs, like the rococo trills of an energetically dying diva. You may enjoy them, but not as unmediated passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Beauty Really Bare | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...pinnacle of soapy success, Hubby Garner begins to go down the drain out of pure jealousy. The final gurgle comes when -unknown to him-the Happy Soap folks dig a swimming pool for Doris in the backyard where the driveway used to be. That night, whump! splosh! Garner goes down with his convertible as the sound track plays a snatch of sinking-of-the-Titanic music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soap Operator | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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