Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least the two beat out the wacky new comic strip, which tells the ongoing and offbeat saga of three rabbits, one of whom is missing an ear, and perennials Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield in last week's first annual Crimson comic strip poll...
...Readers among the student body apparently were satisfied with The Crimson comic page as it was," said Crimson President Jessica A. Dorman '88. "Maybe Allan Bloom is right...
Allan Bloom could not be reached for comment on this issue yesterday, either. It is widely believed that he does not read comic strips, although he is said to be familiar with the work of both Calvin and Hobbes...
...Tokyo exchange, shares are trading at about triple the level of Wall Street stocks in terms of the ratio of prices to corporate earnings. Says Eric Shubert, an international economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Lots of inexperienced people in Tokyo are playing the market; they have switched from comic books to the stock pages, just as in America in the 1920s millions of people switched from baseball scores to stock tables." If Tokyo's market collapses, hard-pressed Japanese investors could be forced to pull funds out of the New York stock market, spreading the crisis to Wall Street...
WITH FAMILY Business, the director breaks with politics and produces a purely comic film about a family whose main source of income is burglary. Were it the first film of a new director, it might be touted as highly promising. But as the product of a great artiste, it disappoints...