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...America, is called Ruckus Manhattan. The space for it was procured by a nonprofit organization, Creative Time Inc., which coordinated the six-month creation, and was donated by the Orient Overseas Association, a shipping company. The buildings, cars, trains, boats and people-from life-size effigies to tiny, comic-strip figures painted on vinyl -were made by the Ruckus Works, a team of 20 painters, carpenters, sewers and stuffers, electricians, engineers and gadgeteers, brought together and working under the amiable direction of two artists, Red Grooms and his wife Mimi Gross...
...prosecutors, Paul claims, ignored evidence that might have swayed the jury: a clipping of a comic-strip version of an Old Testament episode that Little had used as a bookmark in her Bible, which was found after the killing. The clipping, which prosecutors insist they have never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money...
...shouldn't Brenda suffer like the rest of us?" mused Cartoonist Dale Messick, 69, after revealing that Brenda Starr, girl reporter and glamorous comic-strip heroine in 150 newspapers, was finally going to be married. Though she accepted the proposal of the ever-faithful Larry Nichols last week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five...
...rock songs. In ABC's One Life to Live and CBS's The Young and the Restless, characters talk as much about their job insecurities as their sexual insecurities. In the newspapers' Mary Worth, two characters are putting off marriage because they are out of work. (Comic-strip art imitates life; marriage rates are tumbling because of unemployment.) In a new song, Hard Times, Arlo Guthrie croons: "I ain't got a nickel to call mine ... We ain't even got a lousy dime." Nobody is cracking any jokes about unemployment, but once again...
Aside from the comic-strip troops of Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia or the G.I.s who stumble through maneuvers at Camp Swampy with Beetle Bailey, the 70,000-man army of The Netherlands is probably the raunchiest-looking fighting force in the world. In startling contrast to the red-jacketed guardsmen who stand stiffly at attention outside Buckingham Palace, the honor guards in front of the royal palace on the Dam Square in Amsterdam usually have unkempt uniforms, straggly beards and lank shoulder-length hair. In fact, they look more like refugees from a rock group than members...