Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been no evidence of the massive bloodbath that many Americans predicted would follow the collapse of the Thieu regime, and no tales to match the stories of mass executions being brought out of Cambodia by refugees from the Khmer Rouge in Phnom-Penh. Nonetheless, the new Communist government...
One epochal afternoon in his junior year, Trudeau showed News editors sketches for a proposed cartoon strip. In the fall of 1968 the first installments of Bull Tales appeared, poking sophomoric fun at mixers, campus revolutionaries, Yale President Kingman Brewster-but mostly at the football huddles of "B.D." Yalies recognized...
So did Jim Andrews, 39, who, with his partner John McMeel, was about to launch the Universal Press Syndicate. With considerable effort, Andrews talked the recent graduate into going national. Then 22, Trudeau signed a twelve-year syndication contract-which continues to give him 50% of Doonesbury royalties, the industry...
Nineteen seventy-six will also see a more traditional form of expression from the Doonesbury man. After the Mayaguez incident last year (the inspiration for a series in which Kissinger, as part of "Operation Frequent Manhood," sends Marines to retake a cruise ship seized in American Samoa by Uncle Duke...
It is one thing to cerebrate; to narrate is quite another. On the evidence of these 16 collected tales, Author Thomas M. Disch, 36, can do both. Previously known as a writer of science fiction, Disch includes only one story-The Planet Arcadia-in the intergalactic mode. The rest adhere...