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...Salem, managing editor of Universal Press Syndicate, said yesterday from Mission, Kansas, that "events were moving faster than the comic strip" and precluded using the Doonesburys scheduled for next week...
From Miró's poet friends ("I make no distinction between poetry and painting") came other images that he painted and then made unforgettable, such as Dog Barking at the Moon, 1926, a magical vision of a comic canine that never was reaching hopelessly toward a moon that could never be (and has a face...
...performance of Fiddler on the Roof, whose music he loves, and then backstage with the show's star, Zero Mostel. "How old are you?" asks Mostel. "Sixteen," says Philly, without hesitation. "Me too," says Mostel. Then they sing If I Were a Rich Man together, a comic genius and a man who could be called an idiot, meeting on equal terms of humanity...
...courts have their comic aspects (except for the defendants) but both the sequence and the outcome of Mr. Ezera's trial appear to provide the very antithesis of a parody. Of two things choose one: either Mr. Ezera lied (which seemed doubtful) when he denied involvement with the theft; or the plaintiff McGaw made a serious mistake when she originally identified the defendent. The arresting officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives...
Under Herbert Ross's assured hand, the actors perform with impeccable honesty. Leibman moves from farcical jocularity to bleeding anguish. In a sketchy role, Van Patten displays warming femininity. When she is not biting into a juicy comic line, Manoff clings like a valorous terrier to her prey of hope...