Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junk like Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller," insists Luis Valdez, an alumnus of the Mime Troupe and founder of El Teatro Campesino. "Art is communication. The more artful you are, the more straight-telling you are." This is roughly the esthetic theory of the poster or the comic strip, and guerrilla theater is hardly more subtle; radical drama willingly sacrifices art for impact, nuance for message, plot for propaganda...
...resist is the chance to cash in on a pile of merchandising arrangements. A new Laugh-In magazine is selling at the rate of 300,000 a month. The first Laugh-In record album has sold 125,000 copies in three weeks. A rather third-rate Laugh-In comic strip is running in 60 newspapers. Soon there will be Laugh-In jogging outfits, Laugh-In water pistols, Laugh-In graffiti wallpaper and Laugh-In fortune cookies...
...reaction was immediate. The rider, as HEW officials moaned at a news conference two days later, would "paralyze all school desegregation." While the laws and the court decisions requiring desegregation would stay on the books, the provision would strip the federal government of its most potent weapon: the use of federal funds as a lever to force integration...
...darkness obscures the rocky, barren plain that stretches out from the road, and it is impossible to see the rough peaks that rise sharply from the flat desert surface. It's just you and the highway, and the road could be the New Jersey Turnpike or a quiet strip in the country...
...bius Strip. Some of the book's 14 pieces, nearly half of which have previously appeared in magazines, were designed for what is currently called mixed-media performance. To begin with, there is a do-it-yourself Möbius strip that reads (when cut, twisted and joined as instructed): "Once Upon A Time There Was A Story That Began Once Upon A Time There Was A Story That Began . . ." It could go on indefinitely, though once around is enough for anyone to get Barth's point about the cyclical nature of storytelling-or yarning, as he would...