Word: comically
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...wrote, "The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, INVERNESS, FLORIDA...
...from a venal Montana Senator (Ned Beatty): "There's always a confused soul who thinks that one man can make a difference.... That's the problem with democracy." Actually, no. The problem with democracy is thinking that all men can make a difference. One man: that's despotism, or comic-book wish-fulfillment. Or the premise of nearly every Hollywood movie, which says that the system is corrupt, and the little guy can beat it. (Until the next movie, where the system is corrupt...
...Prisoner is a wee little movie, only 72 minutes long, and it is very minimalist in approach - three interviews, a little action footage shot by Yunis and Tucker, with comic book cartoons (by co-director Epperlein) filling in the visual gaps in the story (a much more honest approach than using impersonal stock footage and a lot of pompous narration). But this punctiliousness, this refusal to inflate, grants it a large measure of persuasive power. You believe it precisely because it makes no claims it cannot document and, more important, because you imagine yourself in his sandals, trying desperately...
Just because The Crimson is protected by the right to free speech does not mean that it should not be held morally responsible for printing cartoons, such as “Cultural Stoichiometry,” (comic strip, Mar. 13) that are not only blatantly unfunny but also offensive and stigmatizing of grave mental health issues. In its depiction of a thesis writer who has hanged himself, presumably due to the stress caused by his impending deadline, the cartoon trivializes suicide and contributes to the casual attitude toward mental illness that is all too widely held in our society. Every...
When the four amphibious ninjas with Renaissance-artist names migrated from comic books to the big screen in 1990, they spawned a $6 billion frenzy for such delights as turtle-packaged frozen pizza, turtle shampoo and talking turtle toothbrushes. In the first sequel since 1993, Leonardo and pals have morphed into CGI. The movie's O.K. but probably not worth the hassle of shelling out for action figures afterward...