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...thanks to the popularity of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a two-volume remembrance of growing up in post-revolution Iran. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin recalls the author's early childhood living secretly as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel takes place in suburban Pennsylvania, where the author's father led a secret double life. Though wildly divergent in setting, tone and approach, both books share a compelling interest in the consequences of a stressful childhood...
...HOME ALISON BECHDEL As a little girl, Bechdel knew that her father, an English teacher in small-town Pennsylvania, was odd. He was withdrawn, he decorated their house too much, he moonlighted as an undertaker. But she didn't realize he was gay and seducing his young students, and she certainly didn't expect him to kill himself at 44 years old. In this brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form, Bechdel combines stories from her emotionally barren but weirdly fascinating childhood with elegant allusions to Proust and Joyce to make a gripping story of filial sleuthery...
...more daring manner. “I hear team members say things with one another that they wouldn’t say to me if they were alone.” Williamson said. “In groups, people are in their own comfort zones,” said Alison E. Cohen ’07, suggesting that a similar mentality was at play in the recent racial incident on campus where an undergraduate was reportedly assaulted following a Hindu dance event. The event was hosted by OSAPR, the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and the Winthrop House Sexual...
...this problem and were up for the challenge. Their adaptation features a long-locked and earnest Charles Darnay (Liam R. Martin ’06) whose aristocratic background is brought under the scrutiny of the revolutionary Mr. and Mrs. Defarge (Joshua C. Phillips ’07 and Alison H. Rich ’09). As punishment, his tresses are condemned to meet with the “National Razor” of a vicious and snipper-happy barber, Mr. Guillotine (Burkle). The show is often thrown together at the last minute by a highly skilled group of actors, Burkle...
...BREAK The longtime businessman met company founders Matthew and Alison Freeman-Gleason in 1996. At the time, they had a 12,000-sq.-ft. showroom in downtown Seattle. Taylor, who predicted that home building was going green, jumped on board in 2000 to help expand their vision...