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...Henson, the creator of the Muppets, made it okay to be green, even if it wasn't easy. Dr. Seuss made it fun to be red and blue (as long as you were a fish). As the head of the Brady clan, Robert Reed gave us all room to be groovy and made it acceptable for men to get perms. And Michael Landon championed the spirit of adventure on the American frontier on "Little House on the Prairie...
...want it leaping across the footlights to land, falsely grinning, falsely ingratiating, in your lap. But it is, of course, precisely the camera's business to facilitate such leaps. Even so, if these people had any real charm, if their oddity were cloaked in wit, if their rather chilly creator brought some real compassion to these sealed-off lives, we might take them more readily to heart. If they suggested some generalized insights about lower-middle-class life, we might more readily forgive their dreary excesses. And if wishing could make it so, Neil Simon would be Anton Chekov...
...meantime, however, we can revel in the giddy miracle of his ascension. Like a plurality of his fellow young Harvard Lampoon alumni, O'Brien has been pursuing a TV-comedy writing career -- first Saturday Night Live, now The Simpsons -- and so when SNL creator Lorne Michaels agreed to run the post-Letterman Late Night, he asked O'Brien to be his head writer- producer. They and NBC spent weeks failing to agree on a host. Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey and dozens of other comedians, all of them more famous and experienced than O'Brien, were considered and either turned down...
...were deeply disturbed that The Crimson decided to print a comic strip that so pointedly singles out one member of our community for attack. Certainly Conley, the creator of "Seth Lives," has every right to express his views. The editors of The Crimson have the right to decide, however, whether it will provide people like Conley the public forum to do so. We belive that The Crimson's decision to run the strip reflects a glaring deficiency in judgment, since it is obvious that this particular strip served no purpose beyond acting as a vehicle for a personal vendetta...
...held completely culpable for their actions. Sure they stabbed Jason Robinson without either provocation or remorse, but isn't someone else to blame? The tired excuse of the effects of racism is inapplicable here, as all of those involved were white. The theory of economic deprivation as an inevitable creator of violence also fails to save these residents of middle-class, suburban Dartmouth...