Word: tarzanitis
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...analysis of Peanuts in which it concluded that Lucy is a Fascist and all the Peanuts are sad little "alienated" Americans. "It is true," concedes Communist Critic Gianni Toti, "that the comics have their own particular visible universality and are therefore democratic. It is true that during the war Tarzan left to fight Hitler, the Phantom was mobilized to fight the Japanese, and Mandrake engaged in counterespionage. It is true that Goebbels, when he found out that Superman had destroyed the Atlantic Wall with one of his krypto-rays, wrote: This Superman is a Jew!' " But Toti concludes...
Such adventures might rival an old Tarzan serial, except for old Conrad's pesky profundity. Occasionally, Brooks backtracks to gather up a few platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything...
...CRIMSON's delightful executives--your President. Actually, I personally think that Miss Levine's candidacy is in the best CRIMSON tradition. The only other stunt which comes to mind to equal it was the attempt two years ago of your last President to ride an elephant across California like Tarzan. H. Reed Ellis
Batasi is best when it doesn't take its enlightened spirit too seriously. Sexy U.N. Secretary Mia Farrow (daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan, Tarzan's favorite lane in the Africa that was) turns the coup into a coo with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when...
...rise hotly to the defense of Tarzan, who is not "conventional claptrap" [Aug. 21], but one of the long line of heroes such as Hercules, d'Artagnan and John Ridd, whom most men and boys have always revered and emulated. Who but Tarzan could have remained motionless for ten minutes while a poisonous insect walked over his skin, including his bare eyeball...