Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his comics Crumb is either expounding this philosophy or applying it, foregoing plot and rationality to produce strips that give simple pleasure-"Keep on Truckin" is a series of five drawings of people with feet longer than their arms just walking along to the rhythm of the lyrics "Keep on truckin'. . . truckin' on down the line. . . hey hey hey. . . I said keep on truckin'. . . truckin' my blues away...
PROMISES, PROMISES is an imitation of past successes, with a plot from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure borrowed from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Jerry Orbach and Marian Mercer turn in the best performances of the evening...
Though the Soviets sent 200,000 soldiers into Czechoslovakia only five months ago, they professed outrage at the comparatively modest influx of 12,000 U.S. troopers. Tass, the Soviet news agency, attacked Reforger I as "a new provocative plot." Elaborating on that theme, Izvestia, Moscow's evening newspaper, warned that "the new military demonstration is directed at increasing tension in Europe." What bothers the Soviets most of all is that the war game will be held in Bavaria at the NATO maneuver site of Grafenwöhr -located only 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border...
Lapidary Care. As for plot, Red Beard could be Dr. Gillespie, and the intern Dr. Kildare: the story is that simple. But where his hero is a physician, Kurosawa is a metaphysician. Going beneath the bathos, he explores his characters' psychology until their frailties and strengths become a sum of humanity itself. Despite his pretensions, the young doctor is as flawed-and believable-as his patients. If Red Beard himself is a heroic figure, he is nonetheless cast in a decidedly human mold: gruff and sometimes violent-as when he forcibly takes the girl from her captors-he keeps...
Verbal Combat Fatigue. The plot, insofar as there is one, is to get the fiance (Fred Willard), who wants to remain one in perpetuity, to marry the daughter and then do something or other with his life. As a photographer he has specialized in pictures of human excrement, which is presumably Feiffer's ultimate comment on the state of contemporary society. But the fiance is catatonically passive. At one point his would-be bride (Linda Lavin) says with caustic distress: "See, he doesn't know how to fight. That's why I'm not winning." Finally...