Word: washingtoon
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Stamaty is the creator of "Washingtoon," a cartoon featured in each issue of The Village Voice, and reprinted weekly in The Washington Post. Congdon & Weed has published the serialized strip in a book, giving readers a prolonged look at Stamaty's notable knack for capturing in detail the mood and idiosyncrasies of our nation's capital during Reagan's tenure. As a chronicle of the reign of the New Right, the book is as depressing as it is funny...
...what is really funny here is that "Washingtoon," as any good satire, is so true to life. Like an audience watching a very good impersonator, we see the antics of everyday Washington, and the Administration's social Darwinism emerges: Defense Department officials order a new bomb that "will kill only those people who do not carry a credit card"; the President announces a policy called "The New Deferralism": "that we, at the federal level, defer all responsibility for social problems for a period of eight years"; and Reagan justifies high interest rates, explaining: "We just recently received word...