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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larson credits Don Martin of Mad magazine, George Booth of The New Yorker and B. Kliban, famed for his cat cartoons, with influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All Creatures Weird and Funny | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Role of Imperialism in Fostering World Development," "The Drawbacks of Affirmative Action" and "'The White Man's Burden:' European Literature as a Force for World Salvation." The reading list for the concentration would include works by Kipling, Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill. Notably absent would be anything by Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Leopold Senghor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Studies | 11/25/1986 | See Source »

Divinity School Dean of Students Guy V. Martin sent a bulletin to the Divinity School students, notifying them of the incident. The bulletin also said that sonic whistles were available "at a reasonable price" at the Divinity School Bookstore on Francis...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Man Attacks Woman Near Div School | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson Jr. also endorsed Shultz's position...

Author: By Jonathan S. Leff, | Title: Arms Deal With Iran Criticized by Experts | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...years at the University of Liverpool, but dropped out after construction technicalities began to overwhelm his design inspiration. Fashion offered a fresher, faster alternative: he was beguiled by the speed with which ideas could become a malleable reality. He showed his first eight fashion sketches at London's St. Martin's School of Art, and was immediately accepted. "He's an enormously talented designer with an original point of view," says Lydia Kemeny, Ozbek's teacher and now head of the St. Martin's fashion design department. "But the originality is tempered by a feeling for elegance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Color of New Blood | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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