Word: bat
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...book jacket designer for respected U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Chip Kidd has worked with authors from Cormac McCarthy to Michael Crichton to Haruki Murakami. He is also a twice-published novelist, graphic designer, and comics fanatic - hence Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Kidd talked to TIME about his superhero obsession, why books will never die, and the almighty power of Oprah Winfrey...
...audience, which was supposed to remain absolutely silent, exclaimed and gasped at the line. Those watching could even see a look of glory in McCain’s eyes—the look a major league batter gets when he knows by the feel of the baseball hitting the bat that he just hit a home run. It was a victory, but McCain’s zinger was just as short-lived as a home run. The debate moved on, the topics changed, and the one-liner became a soundbyte, not a game-changer.Joe the Plumber was also a good move...
...this point, I’ve already seen Simons in action. I don’t bat an eyelash...
...bigger question: Is there enough money to pay for everything the government is proposing? The new plan accounts right off the bat for a big hunk of the $700 billion that Congress approved. Will there be enough left over to buy up the toxic debts in the financial sector, for which the $700 billion was originally designed? Some analysts have estimated that those bad debts could total well over $1 trillion. It would be politically unappealing, to say the least, for the Administration to have to go back to Congress for more bailout money...
...Gist:In 2002 Rice, the queen bat of vampire fiction, shed her fangs and began writing books (two so far) about the life of Jesus. This memoir is Rice's attempt to explain her return to Christianity, moving from the idyllic New Orleans of her 1940s childhood to the renunciation of her Catholic faith - indeed, of all faiths - during her student years and after in 1960s San Francisco. Rice's reminiscences about her ensuing atheist period and the success of her decidedly irreligious vampire novels are tinged with some sorrow; she moves earnestly on to the 90s, years in which...