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...notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. Here you marvel at Drooker's skill as an artist. Reminiscent of Masereel's woodcuts, Drooker uses scratchboard, where you carve out the lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood. It's a transcendent effect. The meter of the poem comes from the layout. Most pages are diptychs, with both sides of the book working as individual panels that form...
...though, as the ambient volume is quite vexing to proper conversation.) But is this now really such an aberrant phenomenon? Voguish restaurants need to be this protean: People want old-fashioned quality and intimacy but also flash and flutter, a measured balance of familiarity and novelty, romantic hideaways secreted amidst convivial bustle. Sonsie is exactly that sprawling, radiant paradox. Who really gives a damn about the food anymore...
...Amidst all the presidential ambition, there are those who consider themselves more level-headed. Sonia H. Kastner ’03, president of the College Democrats, is one. She herself has her sights set on local politics, but more than three years of political activism at Harvard has given her insight into Harvard’s political dreamers. “A lot of kids think: They’re coming out of Harvard, there are 435 representatives in Congress, they should be allowed to be one of them,” she says...
...Amidst chants of “Rudy, Rudy,” Giuliani took the podium...
...when they were shown on the screens, while Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former Sen. Rod Grams (R-Minn.) and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura were jeered and booed. When Walter Mondale was shown, the crowd could be heard chanting “Fritz, Fritz, Fritz” amidst the loud cheering. Ventura and his wife walked out during the service; the governor later explained that he was incensed at the memorial’s politicization...