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...Crimson decided two days ago t stop running Berke Breathed's comic strip Bloom County. The decision was triggered by the cartoon scheduled to run in Monday's paper which we felt made an offensive reference to homosexuals...
...before--most notably Doonesbury, which took a leave of absence two months ago. But we feel that when satire touches on sensitive subjects, such as minorities commonly victims of prejudice, it must be done tastefully. If it falls flat, it is not innocuous--it becomes offensive. We felt that Bloom County has too often missed the mark in attempting such parodies. We were concerned about having to monitor the cartoon daily and t decide which days it should or should...
...decision not to carry Bloom County does not suppress the cartoon from this community, nor dies It keep the particular views it expresses out of The Crimson. We simply believe that Bloom County should not be the one cartoon that regularly runs in our pages...
...forge an agreement over taxes by midsummer, the chance of a bipartisan approach will evaporate in the frenzy of the approaching 1984 campaign, when both cutting spending and raising taxes become political shibboleths. And with it could vanish hopes that the buds beginning to sprout around the country will bloom into a sustained recovery...
...life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...