Word: strip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What is your new strip, Outland, about...
...Slim. I am competing with the readers' affection for a dead strip whose body is still warm. The readers and editors are mad and don't seem to be in a mood for anything but the old meadow and dandelions. But until I am booted off the page, I am having a ball. My relatives, of course, think my mind went out with last week's meat loaf...
...What do you think about the current state of the comic strip...
...comic strip is the Andy Griffith of literature. It is conservative, it is homey, it is comfortable, and it is in no hurry to reveal how smart it really is. My fascination is to see what Andy would look like in a thong bikini. Traditional and friendly, but dangerous at the same time, which is a likely description of Bloom County...
...contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich. The days of the free ride are over...