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...number 29 is just another reminder of the one Game he wants to forget. Cozza led an undefeated Yale team into The Stadium on that fateful day in November of 1968. He led the famous Brian Dowling, the same Brian Dowling who provided the inspiration for B.D. in Gary Trudeau's comic strip, Doonesbury...
Ditto for another well-known Yalie, Doonesburycartoonist Garry Trudeau, who predicted a 27-13win for Yale...
Like fellow cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau, William Hamilton of the New Yorker plainly reckons that an eye for the absurdities of character and an ear for dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them...
Furthermore, no one has been able to capture the essence of and crush public figures like Trudeau. In Doonesbury, he doesn't bother to draw actual portraits of prominent politicians. Instead, he reduces them economically and hilariously to talking symbols, conveying their characters with just a few strokes of the pen. Dan Quayle is nothing but a talking feather; George Bush a Few symmetrical lines floating in the air and David Duke a talking swastika...
...reflects some of the strips lighter humor. Boopsie, the airhead actress has been telling a charming, yet typical tale of all her reincarnations from "a plague-stricken calligrapher... from Gunbad-i-Qabus" to a victim of headhunters in the Malaysian Archipelago. From the highly political to the highly bizarre, Trudeau's Doonesbury is always entertaining and is definitely one of the best strips running in newspapers today...