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David J. Andorsky's recent editorial ("A Space Station Is Too Costly: The Federal Government Should Spend Its Money at Home," February 7, 1995) contains several persuasive, and familiar, arguments. The accompanying cartoon, a picture of a beggar looking forlornly into the night sky at a constellation that resembles a dollar sign, is a misguided masterpiece that echoes his seemingly reasonable conclusions: Money spent on the space station would be better spent repairing decaying highways, feeding the homeless of Cambridge, saving lives in Bosnia and Rwanda and any number of unspecified "closer to home" projects. I don't mean...
...provocative operas based on the lives of the still living or recently deceased followed, and now composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie continue the trend with Harvey Milk, currently in its maiden run at the Houston Grand Opera. But where Nixon took someone who had become a cartoon devil and made him into a man, Harvey Milk takes a fairly ordinary man and makes him into a cartoon saint...
...told him that my mother's misfortune took up the space of dreams"-- Marguerite Duras II, (1195). More humorous is Ellen Rothenberg's pile of pink erasers, each printed with the word "GUILT," in Gothic lettering. Art Spiegelman, famous as the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, a cartoon retelling of the Holocaust, contributes sketches and studies...
What inspired him to build his low-rider bicycle: I had bought a shirt when I was here for pre-frosh weekend, and it had a guy, a cartoon character, on a low-rider bicycle. He looked so fresh, all swanked out, and it had a really old school flavor...
Although teachers were skeptical whether thefliers would produce a significant response, theysaid they felt the effort was worth a try. "Wejust try to get the information out any way thatwe can," said Susan J. Smith, programadministrator for Folklore and Mythology, whoseposters featured photographs and cartoon sketches...