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...Harvey Kurtzman is somebody who comes to mind all the time. Harvey Kurtzman was the guy who did Mad comics, created Mad. And I remember being kind of 10 years old and seeing this paperback reprint of some of the early Mad comics--it included something called Micky Rodent. And I know that this created a deep scar and I spent the rest of my adult life working it out.... That there was something sinister beneath the surface was made clear in this Micky Rodent Strip, in which the Disney Police are dragging off Horace Horsecollar in panel one because...
...euphemisms, all deny guilt. The line between legitimate debate and appeals to racism is often fuzzy and turns on the good faith and background of the candidate. Candidates rarely play the race card as baldly as North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms did in 1990 in his race against Democrat Harvey Gantt, the black former mayor of Charlotte. Helms, who refers to blacks as "Freds" and has for decades been hostile to civil rights legislation, was eight points behind Gantt three weeks before the election. Then he ran an 11th-hour TV ad showing the hands of a white man crumpling...
...Abbott of the California Angels, 18-11 with a 2.89 ERA, was third, with five seconds and 11 thirds for 26 points. Jack Morris of the Twins was fourth with 17 points and Bryan Harvey of the Angels was fifth with 10 points...
...Jesse Helms (R-S.C.) won his re-election bid with a commercial that depicted the hands of a white man crumpling a job rejection letter. The not-so-subtle implication is that Harvey Gantt, Helms's Black challenger, would destroy the hopes of the honest white man by giving jobs to less-qualified minorities...
Saturday: Bad Manners with Bop Harvey and Monks of Doom...