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Bad day for several key influentials.
Dec. 10th, 2005 07:22 pmObits today were pretty telling:
Richard Pryor: (AP wire) "The caustic yet perceptive comedian, whose audacious style influenced an array of stand-up artists, had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis."
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy: (Francis X. Clines, NYT) "Eugene J. McCarthy, a Minnesota Democrat, stunned the nation by upending President Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election drive amid the Vietnam War turmoil of 1968."
Robert Sheckley: (Gerald Jonas, NYT): Writer of Satirical Science Fiction - "Robert Sheckley was a major force in the development of modern science fiction whose disarmingly playful stories pack a nihilistic subtext."
Folks, seems the next era is pulling into port.
Richard Pryor: (AP wire) "The caustic yet perceptive comedian, whose audacious style influenced an array of stand-up artists, had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis."
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy: (Francis X. Clines, NYT) "Eugene J. McCarthy, a Minnesota Democrat, stunned the nation by upending President Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election drive amid the Vietnam War turmoil of 1968."
Robert Sheckley: (Gerald Jonas, NYT): Writer of Satirical Science Fiction - "Robert Sheckley was a major force in the development of modern science fiction whose disarmingly playful stories pack a nihilistic subtext."
Folks, seems the next era is pulling into port.
