Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such charges may seem fantastic, the sort of misinformation one typically finds only in The National Enquirer. Currently, however, those charges are being made in the pages of about 1400 respected newspapers nationwide--in the comic pages. The man making the accusation is Garry Trudeau, a noted cartoonist, and the vessel is "Doonesbury," Trudeau's famous (or infamous) comic strip...
...racism. It's a place the band knows intimately, if not exactly by birth. Chuck D, born Carlton Ridenhour, was the eldest of three children of a middle-class family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew a comic strip for the campus paper and casually considered a career like his father's, as a graphic designer. He met producer Hank Shocklee and Flavor Flav (then William Drayton) at the campus radio station, and graphics soon got subsumed into graphic language and a grandiose beat...
...saying that we approach the wit of Dickens and Twain, although we do. But if either of these men were living in 20th-century Harvard, their comic talents would be squashed by the OFA, a group that purports to harness creativity but actually stifles it at its source...
That's what Gov. William F. Weld '66 did last week. And this strange allusion to the world of comic-strip characters was not the only time Weld showed that his Massachusetts 2000 plan is completely detached from the real world of public education in Massachusetts...
...about consumption, and it sat up and begged to be consumed. It also fed back, with incredible speed, into the domain of popular culture -- partly because it was so easily, and at times misleadingly, reproducible. (An early Lichtenstein like Masterpiece, 1962, inflates with complications when liberated from a comic-strip frame; reproduced in print, it collapses back into one again...