Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When mild mannered classical archaeology concentrator David Rogers '92 left Harvard, and took his high-caliber comic strip "Dim Wits" along with him, The crimson had to fill the void with several syndicated strips. Although it was high praise for Rogers that his strip could only be replaced with several professional ones, many readers were confronted with a serious question. "What the heck is this Dilbert...
...mainstay of The Crimson is the classic comic strip, "Doonesbury," by Gerry Trudeau. Despite the fact that he went to Yale, Trudeau is an artist who is remarkably sensitive to the pulse of our society. This is why Doonesbury will often be found on the nation's editorial pages as opposed to the comics pages, a sign that Doonesbury's work is lightyears ahead of the inanities of Jim Davis' Garfield...
...Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, who condemned sin by taking his audience through frame after lascivious frame...
...convoluted plot twists and bravura posturing might seem reminiscent of a comic opera. Certainly the so-called Dniester Republic (pop. 600,000) is among the miniest of ministates, proclaimed by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians seceding from a secession. Its citizens refused to stay in the new nation of Moldova (pop. 4.4 million), a former Soviet republic that broke away from Moscow last August, because the majority ethnic Romanians were making noises about uniting with their brethren across the border...
Hollywood's comic genius returns as a romantic hero...