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by Robert Hughes Alfred A. Knopf $27.50
For such a happily unkempt man -- he wore shoulder-length hair and bargain- basement clothes, and weighed an eighth of a ton -- Gaines' death last week seemed curiously neat: he had turned 70; his creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores...
Mad readers eventually grow up, and thus Gaines bears paternal responsibility for a large swath of pop culture from the past quarter-century. Virtually every stand-up comedy routine is a regurgitation of Dave Berg's Lighter Side strips. Underground artists from R. Crumb on have taken inspiration from Harvey...
The citizens of Cambridge should not count onsuch any radical change coming out of City Hallany time soon, say politicians from both factions.According to Alfred E. Vellucci, a formerIndependent mayor who supports many CCA-causes,changing the city's charter is a long andcomplicated process.
"You want to know why he was fired?" saidformer mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, "For one, [theCCA] has the votes, and for another, [Connarton's]a friend of the Sullivans."