Night of the Crash-Test Dummies

The sixties offered the easy aphoristic wisdom of Charles Schulz, the self-satisfied seventies the prickly satire of Garry Trudeau. The Reagan eighties have spawned the demonic, subtle and slightly despairing humor of a former music-store clerk

Many of Larson's frowsy, no-nonsense women-astringent in their dowdy dresses, their upswept hairdos clamped glumly in place like helmets; eyeless behind opaque, oval glasses that waggishly exaggerate their long and drawn visages-are ringers for the relatives and neighbors of my childhood.

His work- like superior humor and music the world over-is capable of blowing the lid off of some hidden, weeded-over, back-alley regions of ourselves.

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