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Even worse, to keep the reader entertained, the article brings in comic relief comments by a candidate discussing "porn channels". Granted, porn is always funny but perhaps for the first Crimson article on the council elections during campaign period, a few sentences or quotes on the issues might have been more useful to the readership...
Drew knows he has an addictive personality. "Even as a kid, I was the one who had to have every baseball card, every comic book," he says. And while he thinks about quitting every day, he doesn't believe he can just stop. So he converts his vice into a twisted virtue. Bolstered by a smattering of existentialism, Beat poetry and rock 'n' roll, Drew and plenty of teenagers like him justify what they do as a glorification of immediate pleasure over conventional restraint, a familiar theme from the '60s. For Drew, smoking copious quantities of pot confers membership...
DIED. MICHAEL BENTINE, 74, comic actor; of cancer; in London. Bentine, along with Peter Sellers, was an original member of the bbc's irreverent The Goon Show, which influenced a generation of British performers...
...Home Alone" movies, featuring a drawn-out sequence of physical comedy. De Vil's henchmen Horace and Jasper play the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci roles, as they are flung through windows and into frozen ponds. Cruella ends up the victim of much of this comic buffoonery, as she is kicked by a horse, squashed by an overweight hog, and immersed in a vat of molasses. This sequence is not particularly agonizing to watch, but it detracts from the movie's slightly more sophisticated approach to recreating the story...
...were all grateful to presidential candidates Joseph G. "Freeman" Cleemann '98, Philip R. Kaufman '98 and David S. Goodman '97-'98 for providing some necessary comic relief in the sweltering air of Ticknor Lounge. Cleemann reiterated a commonly held sentiment about the council as "aristocratic debate society superimposed on a high school dance committee." Kaufman, standing tall with his hands on his hips, exuded Midwestern charm. And Goodman played-stand-up comedian with his "Good Man" (read: Superman) signs and his green plastic mobile dinosaur with yellow mane and blinking red eyes...