Word: carterisms
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...will not, so to speak, fly today. The dim-bulb hero (Patrick Warburton, Seinfeld's Puddy) is a font of cockeyed metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that is supposedly a no-no now. Except that it's also creative, appealing and spray-milk...
DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, ferociously nonconformist Washington Post cartoonist known as Herblock who illuminated issues from McCarthyism to campaign fund raising and skewered 13 Presidents; of pneumonia; in Washington. Block won three Pulitzer Prizes and shared a fourth. His images, which included one of Jimmy Carter trying unhappily to get a clear picture of himself on TV, could be withering. Block proudly recalled a Post publisher saying his work prompted Nixon to cancel his subscription four times. In 1994 Block received the Medal of Freedom. His last cartoon, at left...
...that, for a while there, it didn’t look like patriotism had totally eclipsed irony in the things-that-define-us-as-American category. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, once it became clear that it was time for grandiose societal assessment, Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair and co-founder of Spy magazine (a now-defunct ’80s irony pioneer), and the rest of the Carter bandwagon declared irony defunct. Carter announced to the media magazine Inside.com in mid-September that “it?...
...Committee on House Life (CHL), while Jennifer S. Axsom ’04, Aalap A. Mahadevia ’02, and Zachary L. Bercu ’04 will serve as new representatives to the Committee on College Life (CCL). Omolola Kassim ’04, James M. Carter ’02, and Briana M. Ewert ’03 were elected to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and Stephanie L. Murg ’02, and Andre M. Moura ’03 are new members of the Standing Committee on the Core...
...left people all over the world wondering who the next “you” would be, unable to appreciate anyone else. Shaquille O’Neal has blossomed into the most dominant inside presence we’ve seen in decades, and no one really cares. Vince Carter hurdles over seven-footers, and no one cares. Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant and Stephon Marbury lead a new generation of superior ballers, and no one bats an eyelash because they aren’t Y-O-U. Only now are the masses beginning to realize that there is more...