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...though they may hide the shopping bags, well-off parents are also finding their way into discount stores when shopping for their children's everyday wear. There they will brush shopping carts with parents of moderate budgets, who are able to find stylish and durable kids' clothing for every occasion. In the past several years, Wal-Mart and Target have gone to great--and successful--lengths to improve the quality of their private-label children's wear. Jill Rice, 34, a stay-at-home mother in Atlanta, says that while she prefers to shop for church or special-occasion clothing...
...Blankets" plays a major part in the complex yet simple experience of the book. Thompson combines the detail of illustration with the dynamism of cartoons in his wonderful black and white drawings. Using both pen and brush he moves effortlessly from realism to expressionism as when demons shoot out of Craig's mouth during a purging of his childhood drawings. The layouts carry through this playful variety with every conceivable kind of design. The comforting hum of a basement boiler wraps around a room and hugs it with warmth. Later when Craig departs from Raina, in a typically poignant image...
...phone cams spread like brush fire, phone-cam blogs are popping up all over the Web. The latest figures show that 3 million to 6 million phone cams are expected to sell domestically this year. Yes, the pictures are often grainy or blurry less than half a megapixel, compared with 3 or 4 for a good stand-alone digital camera--but that's part of their charm for some people. "I like the sense of immediacy," says Katherine Hardy, a phone-cam blogger and legal writer in Berkeley, Calif. Her collaborative site, at fotolog.net/phonecam launched this month with artsy...
...four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show. Liu Xiaodong paints scenes of daily life with thick, vigorous brush strokes in a Westernized style he calls "cynical realism"; his Through the Ages Heroes Have Come From the Young depicts a gritty street corner with two young men facing a group of three young women on bikes, all five dressed in school-uniform blue suits with white shirts...
Bush's high poll numbers mean he can afford to brush off pesky post-mortems. Blair doesn't have that luxury. Only 42% of British voters approve of his job performance. As always, Blair will reserve any criticisms he may have of Washington for the secure telephone line to the Oval Office. But not even British understatement could keep his aides from venting their regret that Rumsfeld had ever opened his mouth--and from praying that those WMD finally turn up. --By J.F.O. McAllister/London