Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explains, to "ancient presences in contemporary commercial and industrial symbols. Times Square, I relate to Byzantine art; the background of the sky against the neon signs resembles the gold in the background of an icon." But Times Square is already a work of art which, like the Vegas Strip, cannot be mimicked in a gallery. No painting can be as immediate as a billboard. No artist, with a limited budget and space, can equal the circuitry and programming of a full-dress neon display. Knowing this, Chryssa prudently went into neon as fictive archaeology...
...Washington Post, The Boston Globe and several other major national newspapers refused to print last Tuesday's Doonesbury comic strip, which showed a character calling former Attorney General John N. Mitchell "guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty!" of participating in the Watergate bugging and its cover...
...Globe and the Post, in editorial page stories explaining why the strip (which is shown above) did not run, charged last week that it violates the "professional code of ethics" by presupposing guilt in a case that has not yet been heard in court...
Both papers also cancelled last Saturday's strip, which showed the same character--Megaphone Mark--implying that President Nixon was involved in the bugging...
Trudeau said the Post decided to cancel the Mitchell strip about two weeks before it was scheduled to run. The Globe's decision, he said, came after it learned of the Post's plans. "Since the Post is sort of the flagship of the Watergate press, the Globe thought it would be OK not to run the strip if the Post wasn't going to," Trudeau said...