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...glided in under the political radar. Right up to about 10 o'clock on election night the local press treated him like a cartoon character. It wasn't reported until later, for example, that Ventura is his stage name, that his legal name is James Janos--a small detail, but Minnesotans had never elected a pseudonym before. He mused about the death penalty and legal prostitution, which are not winning issues here except among drunks, but nobody held it against him. He likened the war on drugs to Prohibition and called it a failure. People let that...
...meaning they had for the time period. To call most of these prints "superb works of art" would be the same as placing the Marlboro Man ads in the upper regions of artistic greatness. The two, after all, were displayed in similar places. We do not proclaim a political cartoon a masterpiece; rather, it is clever, as are the majority of these prints...
Picture the good old days of video games. Arcade games were still found in places other than seedy bowling alleys, and "Pac-Man" had his own T.V. cartoon. Formerly cool Atari was being phased out, and an upstart company named Nintendo was emerging. Even better, they were manufacturing something dazzling and new: 8-bit home video games. Crisper graphics, better sound and enough games to make you dizzy with anticipation...
...teens. America's leading zeitgeist indicators are storming the Palace by the tens of thousands, in all their tribal, hormone-addled glory. They behave like adolescents everywhere, which is to say they dress badly, act obnoxious and travel in packs. Clans like Anarchy and the DiVas drape their slouching cartoon avs in baggy "sk8ter" duds and goof on one another with "scripts"--programs that let you string a strand of hearts around the neck of someone you admire or grandly urinate on someone you don't. In the Palace you never know what will happen. "The other night...
...defense of the University rose President Neil L. Rudenstine, who, in a deft maneuver, vacillated between dodging responsibility and pleading ignorance. Meanwhile, the rest of the Faculty resorted to that timeless rhetorical technique, "gasping and hissing"--a method of retort that gained its popularity during meetings of the Smurf cartoon village...