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- <title>
- Apr. 17, 1989: Laughter, The Best Medicine?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 17, 1989 Alaska
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 54
- Laughter, the Best Medicine?
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Kathleen Brady
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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