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Bentley Boyd

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An Outland-ish Flop

F ROM its title, Berke Breathed's new comic strip, "Outland," promises to take readers someplace unusual and distant every Sunday.


Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia

A wild Zontar from the planet X-13 landed on Mt. Auburn St. Thursday and asked me what a "television sitcom"


Examining This Year's Baseball Cards

Seconds after buying the spring's first box of baseball cards, I would spread the contents of each pack on a


That No-Time Jackson Religion

M ORE than 1600 people crowded into the Zion Baptist Church a Sunday or two ago to hear a politician


In Search of the Perfect Wimp

N ow that both parties have nearly chosen their candidates for the White House, it's time for politocos to start


101 Uses for a Dead Missile

A s I understand it, the new missile reduction treaty between the United States and the U.S.S.R. requires only the


TALKING MUSIC:

I T'S TIME. For years the subject smoldered in the soul of America. To speak of it, especially favorably was