Word: timed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only the size of cartoonists' egos. Nowadays political commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor's name on his butt went a long way in a public's imagination. Our political power today is illusionary. A Johnny Carson monologue is today's real influence brokerage...
...comic page is bogged down in tradition; it is weighed down with expectations. What I find so exciting is the possibility for gentle subversion, to be friendly and dangerous at the same time, like kissing your first cousin hello and lingering...
...Andy Griffith of literature. It is conservative, it is homey, it is comfortable, and it is in no hurry to reveal how smart it really is. My fascination is to see what Andy would look like in a thong bikini. Traditional and friendly, but dangerous at the same time, which is a likely description of Bloom County...
...reigning 800-meter NCAA champion and All-America selection, the women should be able to match their second-place finish in last year's Heptagonal Championship. Rainey already has qualified for the NCAAs in the 800 with a time of 2:06.8 at the Harvard Invitational...
Parker wrote that "the critical hazard is to the inhalation and lung retention of particles," which he said "can produce radiation damage." At the time, it was estimated that a worker could be inhaling about 16 radioactive particles per month. This suggests that over a one-year period a worker could have inhaled an amount of plutonium that is more than twice the current official lifetime lung burden allowed for Energy Department workers, the Glenn report said...