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While there has been no clear legal victory inthe battle over Title IX, gender equity seems tobe winning the war for public sympathy. Lastmonth, Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, creators of thesports comic strip Tank McNamara, made fun of thecoaches of men's sports, many of whom fear thatthe movement for gender equity will hurt theirteams...
...Nothing in particular inspired me to mentionit," says Millar, who writes the comic strip."It's just one issue that's going around thesports industry that I thought was worthy ofmention...
Only the most desperate scavengers would trawl for a story line in this swamp of sensation, but here goes. Clarence (Christian Slater) works in a Detroit comic-book store. It's his birthday, and as a present his boss has bought him a surprise call girl, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). She may vaguely aspire to be Melanie Griffith, and if Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer...
...show biz is a part of every scandal. No sexual crime is so disturbing, no career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed...
Even if Clinton had planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later...