Word: appearences
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quimby" is mostly made up of single-page strips that first appeared in "The Daily Texan," the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, and later in a Chicago's alternative paper. Read episodically, these strips must have seemed little more than a mysterious downer. Presented collectively, the themes become much clearer, with narrative threads that tenuously link one strip to the next. Most are mute pantomimes featuring the Quimby character, who, not coincidentally, looks a lot like George Herriman's Ignatz Mouse. (Ignatz and Krazy Kat appear within the first ten pages of the sketchbooks, along with...
...desire for their return become the clear themes investigated by the little mouse. Ware explains why in the introduction: The first half of the book comes from a time when his beloved grandmother fell ill and passed away within a year. The second half of the book's work appeared when Ware left most of his connections behind and moved to Chicago. "During [my grandmother's] steady decline," Ware writes, "I was only able to draw stories of my increasingly littler mouse wandering, alone, through a large, unoccupied house - my grandmother's house." The sketchbooks from around this time contain...
...blood continues to flow in the coming weeks, the post-mortem on the cease-fire will become academic. And the discussion will shift to the question of what other ideas the Bush administration has for stopping the carnage that the Israelis and Palestinians, separately and together, appear unable to halt...
...Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush keeps in his top drawer have had their responsibilities delegated to a wider group of middle managers not necessarily known to allied intelligence agencies. Almost two years after 9/11, al-Qaeda has certainly suffered major organizational setbacks, but it has also been presented with...
...ballot who were offering themselves up to replace Davis. And so Davis was left facing members of his establishment and a simple yea or nay verdict on his future: the state supreme court last Thursday rejected the Governor's lawsuit to delay the election and allow his name to appear among the replacement candidates should he lose the recall...