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...seems to me that a comic strip is not one of those things you want to seem too concerned about," Trudeau said...
...past couple of months, The Crimson has been running a comic strip entitled "The Misanthropic Mister Chu." This comic depicts a Chinese student who is short, anti-social, awkward both physically and socially and concerned only with math and science. As an Asian American student with pride in my culture and identity, I take offense personally to the negative portrayal of a fellow Asian American individual. As a member of the Asian American Brotherhood, I have deep concerns about the perpetuation of negative Asian American stereotypes in the media. As an individual with a conscience, I cannot believe that...
...middle-aged and marginally successful author, Ted Swenson can summon up only limp enthusiasm for the creative-writing course he teaches at a second-rate college in remote Vermont. Suffering through classes with unimaginative students and dinners with pedantic colleagues, the disgruntled professor of Francine Prose's abrasively comic new novel, Blue Angel (Harper Collins; 314 pages; $25), can't wait to rush home so he can avoid writing his overdue third novel. In addition to battling ennui, Swenson must also contend with a forbidding campus environment fraught with race and gender minefields...
DIED. ANTHONY POWELL, 94, British social-comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell was the last of the Brideshead generation of writers that included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and George Orwell...
RECOVERING. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 78, gets-no-respect comic; from heart-bypass surgery; in Los Angeles...