Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is it about journalists that they must always assess, always evaluate? It seems as though rock critics have the 'evaluation bug' worse than anyone, hence this section and this article. So, what was 1971 like...
...comic books lost for a while in the '50s and early '60s, when sales dropped and the industry appeared headed for extinction. In a world where almost anything was possible and usually visible on a 21-in. screen, outracing a locomotive or buzzing around like an ugly bug in drag seemed somehow tame and tedious. Young readers today, the comic men soon discovered, are more interested in their own problems and the problems they see around them. It is possible, indeed, to see the comics as an art of the people, offering clues to the national unconscious. Superman...
...Lulu than Little Nell, her 10-year-old heroine Lucia refuses to let grownups run and ruin her life. When her parents fight, and Lucia is sent to live with a saurian grandmother in Virginia, she battles the old monster to a standstill. "You're a big mean bug," she screams, "and I sink your mean mud head about ten million feet into the ground!" Then with all her force she struggles to reconstitute the family she needs...
...Atlanta, an exterminating firm picked the wrong customer to bug with a raise on his monthly bill (from $7.50 to $8). The victim was Ed Hicks, a staffer at the Office of Emergency Preparedness. After he promised that the matter would get close attention, the company decided that the raise was a mistake and withdrew...
...named Kermit but called "boy"-has the unsparing, unsentimental eye of his age. He can see that Uncle Floyd, though he may sometimes look like a picturesque cowhand from a TV serial and sometimes (with that yellow helmet) like a bug, is really a stupid, selfish, kindly old man. When a telegram announces the death of Aunt Viola in Nebraska, old man and boy take off in the trailer, precariously hitched to an ancient Maxwell. On their way to the home place by the Platte River, they pick up two oligosyllabic polycopulative young people named Stanley...