Word: autographs
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...able to say fairly confidently that the joy of signing for me, and the joy of signing for Joss, is you can't tell who's your fan any more. When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a line of people lined up to get my autograph, and I knew who was my fan and who was somebody's mum there to get a signature. It doesn't work that way anymore. People say, well, there's the Goths or whatever, and you always do get a few beautiful Goths and people always remember them, but they...
...sweeping mix of ages, races and personal histories that populate the pages, is reminiscent of White Teeth. But On Beauty does not try to duplicate either the breakneck speed or the hilarity of Smith's first book. It's also strikingly different from her 2002 disappointment The Autograph Man, which degenerated into an artificially clever, pop-saturated riff on the anxieties of being twentysomething, and cast a shadow over her early successes. She still can't resist dotting the pages with inside references to everything from Tupac Shakur to Harold Bloom. But this time she shows greater restraint - and self...
...crypt that holds his body. The list of prominent visitors was to include South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Edward Kennedy and Vice President George Bush. "I wish Dr. King were here," gushed nine-year-old Akelia Cobb, excited by all the commotion. "Boy, I'd get his autograph twice...
...Everything has been a thrill to me," whistles this cheerful man through his ventilated smile. "The whole season. It's funny to see me doing TV commercials. My wife and I sometimes look over at each other and just laugh. One day somebody won't ask you for your autograph. You won't be on TV, and that...
...fuel assistance. "Until we have a date [for negotiations], we don't have a date," said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As for Bush, he seems heedless of any need to keep Kim sweet. According to Bush aides who sat in on the meeting, the President had Kang autograph a copy of his memoir, then asked, "If Kim Jong Il knew I met you, don't you think he'd hate this?'' Kang, Bush aides later said, smiled and replied: "The people in the concentration camps will applaud...