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...updating the tired styles and themes of the 1950s, many of the cartoonists find objects for chilling satire. In a play upon the classic "Tin Tin" series, Joost Swarte's "The Adventures of Herge," describes how the curiosity of a bumbling photographer causes the death of an entire airplane crew...
Most notable in these pages is the influence of special-interest groups, prominently feminists and minorities. They are saluted, and placated, to the point where judgment is often skewed, and where tin-eared or casually invented words and terms are given approval simply because they are fashionable. "We tried our best," says executive editor Sol Steinmetz in justification, "to infuse some social significance into the language along the lines of what sociolinguists...
...wrongs, is trying to extradite him from Tennessee to try him again for the killing. Henry himself was arrested several times for his civil rights activities, and was once chained and shackled to a garbage truck to keep him from escaping. He glances up at the piece of tin that covers the hole in the ceiling where a bomb was thrown in 1964. All that is dim history now to most of the world...
...house up to 2,000 people. On the night of the storm, 7,000 villagers crowded the shelter, but now 389 families call it home. They huddle within its chipped and dirt-stained walls, a lucky few clutching their possessions: scraps of clothing, a blackened pot or a tin lamp...
...Archbishop of Canterbury apparently has a tin ear for diplomatic language. The Rev. George Carey, who will be formally installed this Friday, told an interviewer, "The idea that only a male can represent Christ on the altar is a most serious heresy." The comment prompted protests from Anglican traditionalists, who vehemently oppose the ordination of women. Carey apologized, but the furor had barely subsided when he declared that his enthronement would feature a brief selection of songs accompanied by bass guitar, synthesizer and saxophone. The notion of the ancient ceremony being interrupted by 20th century sounds has scandalized the church...