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...animals is nothing short of ludicrous. Yet, this is nothing new for the PETA circuit, which has previously launched vile ad campaigns which compare the killing of chickens to the Holocaust and the captivity of circus elephants to the trans-Atlantic slave trade—fliers on the latter theme were actually available at Ms. Adams’ lecture. But, in the speaker’s crowd of about 125, there was not (apart from my laughter) a single sound of disapproval...
...animals is nothing short of ludicrous. Yet, this is nothing new for the PETA circuit, which has previously launched vile ad campaigns which compare the killing of chickens to the Holocaust and the captivity of circus elephants to the trans-Atlantic slave trade—fliers on the latter theme were actually available at Ms. Adams’ lecture. But, in the speaker’s crowd of about 125, there was not (apart from my laughter) a single sound of disapproval...
...Edmund Morris described him as "an apparent airhead," not just unknown but unknowable, a man who slept through meetings, read from scripts, mistook anecdotes for analysis and prepared for a summit by watching The Sound of Music. His heirs and allies defend him as the redeeming visionary of the latter 20th century, a man who invited people to underestimate him because it served his purposes. As for the private man, he was portrayed as a cold, remote performance artist, and as a humane and generous soul; columnist James Reston called him "an authentic phony"; to George Will...
...asking anyone to pawn their iPods tomorrow to help fund Head Start (which, alas, thanks to Dubya, is well on its way to extinction). Every leftist needs to find his own balance between self-gratification and altruism, but generally, the world needs more of the latter and less of the former...
...TIME.comix: I'd like to ask about your evolution as an artist. In "The Spirit" days, though the work was radical for its time, you were using the conventional mechanics of comics: clearly defined panels, polished, inked drawings and full color. In the latter part of your career, including "Fagin the Jew," you have moved away from panel borders and into a sketchier drawing technique with just a brown wash for color. What's behind your change in style...