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Whenever a political figure moves to front-and-center stage, cartoonists search for a stereotype of him that will be instantly recognizable to the public in whatever armor, spaceman's suit or caveman's costume the artist puts him in to get a smile or make a point. Jeff MacNelly of the Chicago Tribune insists that the public too must have some clear visual impression of a person before "we can get a little crazy in caricaturing him with a kind of shorthand." The Universal Press Syndicate's Pat Oliphant says, "I hate changes of Administrations...
...style jet backpack tested on last February's mission, to retrieve the crippled Max. His untethered ride seemed agonizingly slow. It took him 10 min. to traverse the 200 ft. from the open cargo bay across the reach of black vacuum. The short journey was historic: an unleashed spaceman going to work in orbit...
...Washington and Peking last week reached a tentative agreement to send China's first spaceman aloft on a future U.S. shuttle mission. There have been meetings between NASA and Peking officials to put the plan into effect. The program will probably be announced next month on President Reagan's trip to China...
...directed several hundred videos for the likes of Bowie, the Boomtown Rats and Roxy Music: "If someone from outer space arrived and you played him a record, he might say, 'I can hear it, but why can't I see it?' " You can rest easy now, Spaceman...
Whether "space" rock is just a one-album joke or a pathbreaking funk mutant will have to await the future actions of Afrika Bambaataa, Spaceman Jonzun, and their cohorts. But regardless, the Jonzuns have a good thing going, good enough to fill a first album with exciting and completely electronic music...