Word: grumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want your readers to have to speculate about the identity of the 15-year-old photographer employed by Roger Price's Grump [April 15]. I am he. And the world should also know that I am now 16. Admirable as he may be in other respects, Roger refuses to note the passage of years...
...Labels. Such were the origins of Grump, a year-old, 16-page bimonthly magazine that ridicules in print, photo and drawing what Price considers the "excesses of today's consumer culture" -everything from hamburgers named "Big Daddy" to "the proliferation of venality" to newspapers that "congratulate you during a blackout for not starting a riot." Grump even invents some excesses of its own: a game called "skull diving," for example, in which a man wearing a football helmet topped by a large spring bounces on his head out of the window onto the street. The instant the skull strikes...
Time to Go Straight. Unlike most other shoestring satirical publications that flood the market these days, Grump carries no identifiable political label. "People get a pleasant surprise when they open Grump" says Price, "because they think any new magazine is either leftist or dirty. We are in the moral middle...
...writer for Bob Hope for five years and a successful stand-up comedian himself, Price claims he has "bummed around" for the last few years. At 44, he plans to "go straight" now and devote most of his time to Grump. "Today's humor is like frozen food," he says. "Children grow up not only ignorant of what real, good food is but also of what real humor is." Price hopes to enrich their diet...