Night Of The Crash-Test Dummies

"The sixties offered the easy aphoristic wisdom of Charles Schulz, the self-satisfied seventies the pricjly satire of Garry Trudeau. The Reagan eighties have spawned the demonic, subtle and slightly despairing humor of a former music-store clerk."-Rolling Stone "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 oof of some hidden, weeded-over, back-alley regions of ourselves."-Al Young, Things Ain't What They Used to Be