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...truth, much of the violence on the show had been exaggerated, with drug raids filmed from every possible angle and car chases replayed in slow motion. Yet I still got the feeling the ad-hoc directors and producers--many of whom are police officers themselves--want to make a statement with these shows. "America isn't safe anymore," they seem to say, "so lock your doors, throw another chicken pot pie in the microwave and tune into 'Cops' to hear about the real state of the union...
Only 20 students out of 140 nominal members attended the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Council Reform last night to discuss ways to increase student interest and involvement in council representation...
...press has openly alleged that followers of Applewhite were driven to insanity; subtly, it has pushed a message of intolerance toward obscure faiths of all stripes. In an editorial last Saturday titled "Gateway to Madness," The New York Times called Applewhite's beliefs "ad hoc mumbo jumbo" and his believers "wounded, foolish followers...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more...
DIED. STAN DRAKE, 75, cartoonist; in Norwalk, Connecticut. After working for an ad agency, he turned to illustrating and in 1953 created the sentimental romantic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones. At one time, 600 newspapers carried the award-winning strip. Beginning in 1989, Drake illustrated the domestic adventures of Blondie...