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...there are models of satellites and space stations, a huge pond on which a few little ships make desultory voyages, and a large relief map of the U.S.S.R., with lights pinpointing major cities and prompting a sense of unfortunate irony. In each group there is almost always some black humorist who asks, "Is Chernobyl the one that's glowing brightest?" The American pavilion, dedicated at the last moment to the seven astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster, deals exclusively with space. But most Americans, and most others as well, have already seen much of the material on TV. Even...
...striking and rather ironic omission. Franz Kline (1910-62) is the only original member of the New York school whose work has never been given a retrospective by a Manhattan museum. That one should have to go to Cincinnati to see him is a thought that Kline, no mean humorist, might have relished...
Much speculation remains about the origins of this humorist terrorist organization...
...wait is over. Garrison Keillor, self-effacing fabulist, closet sociologist and "America's Tallest Radio Humorist," has written the history of "the little town that time forgot and that the decades cannot improve." His affectionate sketches provide a full granary of bemused narratives about favorite Wobegonians, including Father Emil, who blesses animals on the lawn of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church; the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian, which sprouts grass from an unusual place; and Angler Dr. Nute, a retired dentist who tells the sunfish, "Open wide . . . This may sting a little...
...Radio Humorist Garrison Keillor's first novel gives fans something more lasting than air. The seven siblings of The House of Mitford...