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Thursday, July 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7
Books give comic relief
from campaign hi jinks
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
Jackson blasts Mondale. Mondale criticizes Rea
gan. Reagan chastizes Jackson. Seems as though
the Disney Channel or comic books are the only
places you can turn to if you want to escape all the
political darts, barbs and other nonsense. Why the
sudden deluge of propaganda? It’s almost conven
tion time, and the media are keying up for the
event like a kid waiting for a circus (any parallels
are purely innocent).
Now there’s another alternative to the campaign
sideshows. “Who’s in Charge Here?” by Gerald
Gardner or “Everybody for President” by Gil
Campbell and Martha Gorman — two political sat
ires for those who are tired of hearing too much of
a subject that has been treated with exaggerated
seriousness.
“Who’s in Charge Here?” — the sixth edition of
Gardner’s unique form of political satire — uses
news photos paired with clever balloon captions
and turns an otherwise legitimate photograph into
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Political funny business
A potential candidate (above) reads all about campaigning in
“Everybody for President” by Gil Campbell and Martha Gor
man (Workman Publishing, $4.95). The book even comes
with a do-it-yourself kit that includes registration forms and
an official bumper sticker. “Who’s in Charge Here?” by Ger
ald Gardner (Bantam Books, $2.95) takes a tongue-in-cheek
look at the world’s celebrities, political and otherwise.
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a satirical look at the world’s dignitaries.
Nothing is sacred in Gardner’s book. He man
ages to catch everyone from Ronald Reagan to the
Pope to Prince Charles and Princess Diana in hu
morous and sometimes unflattering poses, and
uses them to his imaginitive best.
The first edition was published in 1960, and
President Kennedy liked the book so much he in
vited him to a White House dinner.
For those who prefer to be involved but just
can’t say NATO with a straight face, “Everybody
for President” by Campbell and Gorman might be
the perfect alternative.
This do-it-yourselfer has definite classic poten
tial. Everything needed to run for office is in
cluded in this presidential guidebook: advice, can
didate registration forms, a certificate of
candidacy, a bumper sticker and official White
House parking sticker.
Everything about this book is done wonderfully
tongue-in-cheek, and shows how carried away
some politicians can get in a “serious” campaign.
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Old score
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from water
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WASHINGTON — A team of con
servationists, using tweezers, scal
pels, a deep freeze and blow driers,
saved the original score of Leonard
Bernstein’s new opera “A Quiet Pla
ce,” which suffered serious water
damage, officials said Wednesday.
The score of the opera — includ
ing revisions, notations and phrasing
marks — was shipped to the Ken
nedy Center for the Performing
Arts July 6 following its European
premier last month at La Scala, in
Milan, Italy.
The opera — commissioned
jointly by the Kennedy Center, the
Houston Grand Opera, La Scala and
Inhe center — will be ready in time
for its East Coast premier July 21 in
the newly refurbished Kennedy
Center Opera House, spokeswoman
Laura Longley said.
Kennedy Center officials found
the suitcase or box containing the
score had been in or contained some
water and about one third of every
page had water damage, said Peter
Fay, director of the center’s Per
forming Arts Library.
Also damaged was the score to
Bernstein’s 1950s one-act opera,
“Trouble in Tahiti,” which is per
formed as a companion piece to the
new work.
“The box had been soaked with
water. The parts were unreadable
and the pages were sticking toge
ther,” Fay said.
“It’s as if the books themselves got
stuck in water somehow. No one is
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every page and every part was
soaked through with water.
The score was immediately sent to
the Library of Congress conserva
tion office “where they dropped ev
erything they were doing, treating it
as if it were the rarest manuscript in
the world,” he said.
A team of 20, headed by the con
servation officer Peter Waters, sepa
rated each leaf with tweezers .
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