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- PEOPLE, Page 54Laughter, the Best Medicine?
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Kathleen Brady
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- Is AIDS a proper subject for humor? Satirist GARRY TRUDEAU
- thought so and applied some black comedy to a segment on the
- disease in his Doonesbury strip. But gay activists objected, and
- some newspapers temporarily dropped the strip. "The fact that
- he's a liberal with a good heart does not exempt him from
- criticism," said a gay critic. Others, however, praised
- Trudeau, who told a newspaper editor that his aim was to "attack
- the fear and ignorance by laughing in its face."
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