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BOOKS . . . ZEKE AND NED: Al Capp's long-gone hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner wasn't elevated humor, but it was funny, and that's pretty much the case with 'Zeke and Ned' (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $25), by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. "Advocates for Native American rights will be flummoxed to learn that, as the authors tell it, Cherokees endured the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory only to end up in Capp's Dogpatch," says TIME's John Skow. "McMurtry and Ossana set their story in the Cherokee town of Tahlequah, but it's Dogpatch...
...Religiously. I like Andy Capp. I used to be avid on Pogo and was sorry to see him go. That's not the only way I waste time. I watch sitcoms too. I really like Cheers. Probably the biggest plague of my life is all the time I waste. What I don't like is getting up early. In that respect, a Navy career has been tough on me. You know, the Russians do a lot of work at night -- at least Stalin did. So did Churchill. That life-style has an appeal...
...Abner, the hero of Al Capp's comic strip, worked as a mattress tester, sleeping away his hours on the job. This soft life is not for Helen and Robert Yurs of Sycamore, Ill., who operate Rayco Engineering, probably the only consulting service that makes house calls to test bedding for structural defects...
Perception is reality. Could Plato himself have said it better in his speculations about the imaginary cave where prisoners see life as a series of shadows flickering on the walls? Wasn't that what Shakespeare meant when he had Prospero conclude his pageant by declaring that "the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples" would all dissolve, for "we are such stuff as dreams are made on"? Trompe l'oeil (trickery of the eye) is the artistic term for it, and Italy is full of palaces with flat ceilings painted to look vaulted...
...factory at the edge of the desert in Palmdale, Calif., is a longish way from the old green-painted hangar in Burbank where it all began. But to everyone in military aviation, it is still the "Skunk Works," after the foul-smelling still where one of Al Capp's Li'I Abner characters brewed Kickapoo Joy Juice. A fitting nickname. Over the years an incredible string of secret weaponry-including the new breed of nearly "invisible" (to radar) planes-has emerged from the Skunk Works...