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...Garry Trudeau raised quite a furor a year ago when he announced that he would take a leave of absence from his daily comic strip "Doonesbury." In explaining his sabbatical, Trudeau mentioned something about his characters, children of the '60s, needing to grow up and move on. "Doonesbury," created in the paradigm of the radical '60s, just wasn't funny under the Reagan Administration...
...Trudeau was right, of course, and though "Washingtoon" will probably never make it to Broadway's floorboards, the strip is one of the few that ably captures the irony of a liberal perspective on Washington in the '80s. One effort that comes close is James T. Pendergast's "Mrs. Gipper," which began appearing on the letters page of Rolling Stone last year, and portrays the adventures of the First Lady, surrounded by a full entourage as she galavants through the capital city, stopping off to order fast food and advise husband Ronnie on the issues of the day. Few other...
BORN. To Jane Pauley, 33, bright-eyed, bushy-maned co-host of NBC's Today Show; and her husband Garry Trudeau, 35, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist whose musical adaptation of his Doonesbury comic strip is currently on Broadway; their first children, twins, a boy and a girl; in New York City...
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU...
...dissolution of the Vienna talks with a familiar litany of its own: expressions of regret and declarations of a readiness to negotiate whenever the Soviets are willing. President Reagan also kept a bland demeanor after meeting at the White House last week with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who urged him to try harder to clarify the peaceful aims of U.S. arms control policies. Said Trudeau: "I found myself telling him that he should be communicating better, and he's the expert communicator." The President thanked Trudeau "for coming here and sharing your ideas with...