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Word: comicbook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen Drury promises this will be the last of his Advise and Consent novels. That is a mercy. The author's comicbook view of humanity and reflex cold-war xenophobia, as well as the clothespins he calls characters and hangs out on his reactionary line, have long ceased to be amusing targets. Drury, in fact, somewhat resembles those Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender in 1945 and spent 30 years with scorpions and coconuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: NOTABLE | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Bawdy Doggerel. Pattern's private war-years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gorgeous George | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

Superhang-ups for a superhero, but Superman is not the only hero hanging his cape outside Dr. Feelgood's door. Today almost all comicbook characters have problems. As in many fields, the word is relevance. The trend may have begun a decade ago, but in the socially aware '70s it has reached full blossom. The comics' caped crusaders have become as outraged about racial injustice as the congressional Black Caucus and as worried about pollution as the Sierra Club. Archfiends with memorable names like the Hulk and Dr. Doom are still around, but they are often pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Adolescent to Puerile | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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