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Continuing Eisner's exploration of the Jewish-American experience, "The Name of the Game," (DC Comics; 176pp; $29.95) means to be about how a "good" marriage used to be defined by what it did for you socially. Set in the world of New York's early-20th century German-Jewish elite, it focuses on Conrad Arnheim, a lazy, boorish lout who marries first for business and then for ego. The cover sums up the theme pretty accurately: a married couple, screaming at each other, with fists clenched, stand against a background of a stiff, older-generation, family portrait...
...might as well make peace with it too, because these days we're seeing a lot more of Redford. His Sundance Institute--the laboratory he started for independent filmmakers in Sundance, Utah--is celebrating its 20th anniversary. And he is starring in two movies: the prison drama The Last Castle, which opened last month, and the Tony Scott espionage thriller, Spy Game, which opens...
...case, cop against banner. And the stakes are high. Shaolin monks' heroism on battlefields, both real and imagined, has been legendary for generations. But like so many institutions of China's imperial past, the temple was violently severed from its historical roots by the political upheavals of the 20th century. Its red-walled halls and library were reduced to rubble in a warlords' feud in 1928, and its long-cultivated traditions withered under decades of communist repression. Now, thanks in large part to the latest kick-flick craze, Shaolin is again in bloom and its alumni, at home and abroad...
Ornate green and black dust jackets of early 20th century fantasy fill Keaveny’s bookshelf, which stands diagonally across the small room. According to Keaveny, a young man with unruly curly hair, Converse sneakers and large horn-rimmed glasses, lovers of rare and first-edition books tend to have highly specialized interests...
...slowly evaporating before our eyes as their children are exposed to the competing memes of the modern world—memes of capitalism, gender equality and consumerism. Quakerhood is an endangered meme, a meme that can no longer compete in the marketplace of ideas that has opened in the 20th century...