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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in the last year of "Bloom County," but her character was smothered beneath her role as the Voice of Liberal Consciousness. She was never anything more than an easy way to get a point across. Ronald Ann had none of the subtlety or independence of, say, Oliver Wendell Jones, Breathed's Black computer hacker...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Evidently, these unsavory vermin are intended to represent fragments of Ronald Ann's ghetto-formed imagination. Get it? Instead of clean, Walt Disney fantasy figures, she conjures up polluted, harsh types--the tarnished ideals that a ghetto child might create...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...get the idea. I would be more amenable to Breathed's intellectualism if he put any care into his drawing. After all, he has a whole week to form a really powerful set images. But "Outland" looks as sketchy and hurried as the worst weeks of "Bloom County." It certainly doesn't measure up to the artistry of "Calvin and Hobbes" in one of its Sunday Spaceman Spiff strips...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...Requiring a document to get an apartment is absurd--especially if you can't get the document," Woods said. Massachusetts law makes no provision for marriage between two members of the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unmarried Couples To Receive Housing | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

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