Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes, but dozens of papers excised the panels. In an editorial, the Washington Post huffed: "If anyone is going to find any defendant guilty, it's going to be the due process of justice, not a comic-strip artist. We cannot have one standard for the news pages and another for the comics...
Soon after Trudeau entered Yale, in 1966, he drew his first comic strip: a Feifferesque embarrassment about a freshman who bombed in New Haven-particularly at mixers. "The art was bad," Trudeau acknowledges. "Stylized." He put the scrawls away and went on to become editor of the campus humor magazine and write an occasional column for the Yale Daily News on a wide assortment of campus topics...
More than any of his comic-page contemporaries, Trudeau is a true journalist. He often works only two weeks ahead of Doonesbury's deadline (v. as much as two months for some other cartoonists), and spends hours sifting through newspapers, magazines and government documents in search of inspiration. His timeliness and diligence were clearly demonstrated last spring as Southeast Asian refugees poured into the U.S. In Doonesbury, they arrived in Washington to testify at Senate hearings that resembled a TV quiz show. ("What do we have for the witnessess, Johnnie?" "Well, for the ladies, from Speidel, the latest...
Astonishingly, Danny Thomas' new show, THE PRACTICE (NBC, Friday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), should not be ignored. Thomas is your basic, crusty old family doctor, and, to be sure, he cannot resist the occasional opportunity to show that he is more than a mere comic. Yet the show's structure is sound. Danny's son is a Park Avenue practitioner whose sharp dress, smooth manner and cleverness about tax shelters drives the old boy to outrage. The gag writing, at least in the opening episode, is plentiful and sharp-up to Mary Tyler Moore standards...
...prowess is unexpected in a lass as comely as Lindsay Wagner. On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half. One hopes the show's writers will keep this spirit of comic-book irony going...