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...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 Kurtzman (Gaines' editorial genius, who left after four years to launch a doomed satirical magazine for Hugh Hefner) and Mad's dense, rude cartoon style. Parodies of advertising and TV did not really exist before Mad invented the form. Ernie Kovacs, along with Bob and Ray, wrote free-lance for Gaines in the '50s, and Kovacs and Mad begat Saturday Night Live...
...could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot at least twice, regards the * Texan with dismay as a loose cannon. Besides, he is believed to have political aspirations of his own, and third parties are no place for national heroes to launch a second career...
...Beyond [global consciousness raising], I don't think there are enough teeth in the protocols which have been developed so far to launch the initiatives which are most needed," said Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson...
Once in college, he dropped out of Harvard and joined the Coast Guard just one semester before he would have graduated. And in his thirties, he left a steady, good-paying job to launch a risky career as a novelist...
...allow the sale of the Texas-based LTV Aerospace and Defense Co. to Thomson-CSF, whose principal stockholder is the French government, raised questions far more vexing than matters of mere national pride. About 75% of LTV's products are defense- related, including such advanced systems as the Multiple Launch Rocket System and the B-2 Stealth bomber. French ownership would effectively guarantee French acquisition of LTV's classified American defense technology...