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I opt for the former. Breathed complained that he was burned out on the style of comedy in "Bloom County," but now he refries the same humor in "Outland." Dan Quayle jokes are neither funny nor thought-provoking at this point. They're pathetic.

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Maybe Breathed is trying to be pathetic, to prove that he can be a subtle comedian by being obvious. Maybe he is repeating Dan Quayle jokes every week to beat us so senseless that we begin to see his deep, hidden artistic motive. He may yet prove that there is...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Little Cubs: Will someone on the Columbia campus finally admit that its football team has had one of the most pathetic histories of any team in the nation? Not including Kansas State, of course.

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Testing out the Rushing Theory | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

Crystal is great as an older more pathetic kind of wise guy than his earlier self. He is well cast and funny but it is Ryan--with her big blue eyes reminiscent of Goldie Hawn--who is really outstanding.

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Harry and Sally: Consummating a Friendship | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

The second event brought back memories of battles I had with Black fraternities during my undergraduate days at one of the Black colleges (Lincoln University, Penn.)--battles over their pathetic consumerist and hedonist values, as well as their indifference to the budding civil rights activism in the early 1950s.

Author: By Martin Kilson, | Title: Fraternities and Harvard's Black Community | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

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