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Mary Alice Harrington, who has manned the booth for over 20 years and now works there every Tuesday, reported a drastic decrease in tourist activity...
...TIME.com maven Andrew Arnold calls him "one of comix' greatest forward-thinkers." In the biz from his teens (everybody started young in comics), Eisner wanted to break out of the newspaper-illustration straitjacket, saying, "A daily strip to me is like trying to conduct an orchestra in a telephone booth." So at 23, on June 2, 1940, he introduced The Spirit, which ran as a separate comic book in the Sunday papers - an eight-page symphony, if you will. Not a graphic novel, yet, but a graphic short story...
...which has only been -what? -like three times in the last seven or eight years, but every time I go, I go to the Drake Diner, because it has great chocolate milkshakes, which this is like the only place that I have one. And I was sitting in a booth there, and I was so touched by all the people who came up-this was before I had done anything; this was Friday night around 6 o'clock -and I was just so touched by all the people who came up to talk to me and to welcome...
...senses something unusual is happening. He sucks his fingers for comfort, but, finding no solace, his mouth crumples, his body stiffens, and he lets rip an almighty shriek of distress. Mom picks him up, reassures him, and two minutes later, a chortling and alert Daniel returns to the darkened booth behind the screen and submits himself to Babylab, a unit set up in 2005 at the University of Manchester in northwest England to investigate how babies think...
...Madrid Fusion, the celebrated international conference of the epicurean avant garde, it was that algae is in vogue: Ferran Adri?, the founding genius of the new conceptual movement among chefs, wrapped a crab torso in it. Angel Leon, used it to clarify stock. And at the Porto Mui?os booth in the exhibition hall, the lechugas del mar sold like- well, hotcakes. But apart from a predominance of sea vegetables, it was hard to detect clear trends at Madrid Fusion. As some of the world's top chefs gathered to show off their stuff, the first signs of introspection...