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...mystery and part miracle. The mystery is, Who are these guys? Light on star power, the Bears do not at first look--or second look, either, for that matter--scream championship material. They're a flamboyance-free assortment of rookies, unknowns and slow starters, including offensive tackle James (Big Cat) Williams, who, at 6 ft. 7 in. and 331 lbs., can block out the sun, never mind defenders. Williams was just selected for the Pro Bowl, the NFL's All-Star game, after 11 years in the trenches...
...curls up in an armchair, more relaxed now, to return to the troubling topics of persona and confession. “If I only thought people could get some creepy thrill from it, that would be horrendous,” she muses, stroking her cat. “There is a message of redemption. And to not get across the message of human possibility would be bad. But if it’s not a fun story, it’s not a story worth telling...
...have recently been moved into Qatar and Kuwait, prompting fevered speculation that the U.S. is about to move against Iraq. Washington insists it is simply rotating troops, but the Sydney Morning Herald notes that only some 4,000 troops have been rotated out. And the Czech Republic let the cat out of the bag by revealing that the 400 soldiers it has committed for the war on terror may be sent to Kuwait. "The deployment of so many troops may be designed to intimidate Saddam Hussein," the paper suggests. But it may also be the prelude to the battle that...
...pants is poking the fireplace in a desultory way. His wife stares out the window, her back to us. The folds and pleats of her costume, intensely formal, suggest a caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats can look bored, hesitates between the two of them. The very air is congested with the excessive patterns of a middle-class interior, with its ugly mock-Henri II furniture. It manages to be monumentally static, miserable and funny, all at once...
...book makes it clear that like the rest of America's workplace, WWII allowed many more women into jobs previously held by men. Adventure newspaper strips in particular saw an influx of women pioneers. Tarpe Mill's sexy, cat-suited "Miss Fury" strip stands out, as does Dale Messick's still-enduring "Brenda Starr." As a bonus, Robbins has dug up Messick's unpublished, earlier strip proposals. Robbins super-sleuthing has even uncovered Jackie Ormes, apparently the first African-American woman with a syndicated comicstrip, "Torchy Brown," that ran sporadically from the 1930s to the 1950s in black-owned newspapers...