Word: mccloud
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DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
...comics explode with a variety of visual styles. Craig Thompson's "Juanita and Clem" strip takes the reader's eye on a roundabout, tour of the entire page as Clem, a frog-like creature in a purple suit, searches for water to pour over Juanita's flowers. Scott McCloud, who's seminal book "Understanding Comics" attempts to define comics and how we read them, contributes a two page strip on how comics can be about anything and take many forms. It's an empowering piece, and completely upsets the order of Little Lulu...
...canvas-shredding mad. "The art galleries bring a lot of people to town. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg," says Linda Miller, who runs a gallery with her husband Jim, a painter, on Ocean Avenue, the city's main drag. Mayor Sue McCloud is unmoved. "We need a more diverse economy," she says...
Then with two out in the seventh, junior catcher Schuyler Mann tied the game with a solo shot off of Crusader reliever Jim McCloud...
...cheap hits off of Crimson starter Javi Arteaga—the first an infield single by McCloud and the second a texas league double off of the bat of Mike Marron—put runners on second and third with one out, and Mike Schell picked up both RBI with a single up the middle to bring the score...