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...name also made artistic and pragmatic sense. The comic book medium of the time consisted entirely of superheroes and gag books. Furthermore, these books had positioned themselves (and we live with this legacy today) as a childish treat akin to toy cars and baby dolls. How then to fit in works that were similar-looking but contained copulating, dope-smoking hippies and motorcycle club beat-downs? The answer was, and remains: You don't. You call it something else. So "comix" was born, or more accurately, evolved, just as the medium...
...Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs to a quaint and nostalgic past...
...this is good news for those of us whose business is to help start and organize young companies. Today Silicon Valley is akin to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after spring break. The tourists have abandoned us. Most of the people who came here in search of a quick buck during the past few years have gone. The foreign billionaires have scuttled back to Europe and Asia, the corporate parvenus have retreated, and Hollywood celebrities no longer swish through our office seeking a smattering of pixie dust...
...Oscars make me speculate about the shelflessness of the winners. This is a disgraceful and ungrateful habit, akin to looking at a beautiful woman and imagining what she will look like as an old crone. Of course, the point of movies is that, unlike the rest of us, they are not supposed to turn into geezers and crones...
...Bush's pledge to create a prescription drug benefit. New numbers released by the CBO have convinced members of both parties that Bush's program would fall short by tens of billions of dollars; using the Medicare surplus to cover this shortfall, as the administration has proposed, would be akin to stealing from future generations of retirees to fund today's coverage. Bush is just as shortsighted in his Social Security budget, which would take money out of the trust fund to pay for private accounts without covering future expenses...