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Weeks after cover stories in Rolling Stone and Spin , the newsweeklies catch up with the hit animated TV show South Park . Newsweek 's cover story argues that South Park successfully balances crudity (singing, dancing stool samples) with inspired lunacy and sweetness (naive 9-year-olds).
There is, of course, method in his madness (it has been claimed that puns introduce lunacy into language, but it was there all along), and capering wordcaprice in his pedantry.
Compare this vivid lunacy to a passage from After the Madness :
Most of her colleagues on the Times op-ed page represent an identifiable and more or less consistent position: Thomas L. Friedman is the voice of liberal internationalism, Russell Baker was the voice of New Deal liberalism, Bob Herbert is the voice of liberal populism, William Safire is the voice of libertarian conservatism, and A. M. Rosenthal is the voice of sheer ranting lunacy.
Its subject, John Nash, is a mathematical genius who went crazy at the age of 30 and then, after several decades of flamboyant lunacy, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for something he had discovered as a graduate student.