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...highly emotional issue in Canada, too. Although Bush had come prepared to talk about bilateral problems ranging from trade to tourism, the nuclear debate overshadowed all other matters. Demonstrators spattered the Vice President's limousine with eggs as he headed for an appointment with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Standing in the 5° F cold, they chanted and waved placards that read REFUSE THE CRUISE...
Reagan's philosophies seemed destined to provoke a new brand of despair among Washington regulars. With telling prescience. Garry Trudeau last year penned several sketches of a distraught EPA employee whose premonitions of policy reversals sent him scurrying to the narrow ledge outside his office window. The scene could have transpired equally well at any number of federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Department of Education...
Berke Breathed must be similary confused because the humor of his February 28th strip was, if anything, less subtle than that of the Trudeau strip. Breathed's target was clearly Steve Dallas, a macho, sexist dog who is invariably shown in an unfavorable light, and not gay men. Frankly, I can't see how anyone could reasonably interpret the strip as you apparently...
...reading your statement on Bloom County, I was reminded of many newspapers' decision not to run Garry Trudeau's famous "Guilty, Guilty, Guilty" Doonesbury strip. Trudeau was puzzled by this, because he in fact was poking fun not at John Mitchell, but rather at the most rabid Nixon-haters, as represented by his character Mark...
...removal of Bloom Country suggests that the transition from the safe and complacent liberalism of Garry Trudeau to Berke Breathed's absurdist anarchy was a more radical departure that The Crimson was willing to accept for long...