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BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD THE MIKE JUDGE COLLECTION, VOL. 1 MTV sells a dream: coolness and popularity. Creator Judge's Beavis was the antidream, embodied in two MTV-watching cretins with a taste for dirty jokes ("Heh heh heh. You said unit"). The cartoons--40 of them selected here--satirized '90s teen culture while snidely trashing music videos. TV rarely critiques itself with such pith. Heh heh heh. I said pith...
...Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. On Beauty Zadie Smith 2. Indecision Benjamin Kunkel 3. Knife of Dreams Robert Jordan 4. Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 5. The March E.L. Doctorow 6. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 7. Third Brother Nick McDonnell 8. Gilead Mailynne Robinson 9. Acme Novelty Library, Vol. 17 Chris Ware 10. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World...
...comics of Little Lulu, one of the greatest exemplars of cartooning for all ages and beloved by an entire postwar generation of kids, are being reprinted as a quarterly series of black-and-white collections (Vol. 4 arrives this month). The adventures of Lulu, Tubby, Alvin and the "fellers" seem as fresh and funny as they were 50 years ago. The gang gets big laughs from such absurd contrivances as Lulu's swapping her father's beloved mounted fish for a Civil War cannonball as a surprise gift. Stanley and Tripp keep Lulu as entertaining and revisitable as I Love...
...hotel imbroglio was playing out in Nairobi, the U.S. delegation was in Washington enjoying a White House send-off lunch of veal vol-au-vent and cantaloupe sorbet. At each place setting was a commemorative bronze medallion wrapped in white paper and pink ribbon. President Reagan's remarks to the group included a few fatherly jests about his daughter Maureen, who is to head the delegation, but his message was earnest. The "business of the conference is women, not propaganda," he reminded them...
...addition, the films on the syllabus were sometimes subject to change. Granted, those changes were often made to accommodate, say, a prerelease showing of Kill Bill, Vol. II or a Bill Murray flick to coincide with the actor’s surprise visit to the class...