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...French countryside, may seem best suited for upholstering a sofa that's covered (permanently) in plastic. But designers are dusting off traditional patterns like toile and splashing them on wallpaper and trench coats. For his spring 2005 collection for Burberry, designer Christopher Bailey drew inspiration from an English classic: blue-and-white Wedgwood ceramics. The French fabric company Pierre Frey recently introduced Hong Kong , a toile depicting its namesake city, including skyscrapers and traffic jams. And the Glasgow-based design firm Timorous Beasties' toile honors the company's hometown with a tableau of familiar local spots. "I thought it would...
Pantheon, the publisher behind such serious-minded comic books as Persepolis, continues to lead the way. In February the house will release Posy Simmonds' GEMMA BOVARY, a graphic novel that updates the Flaubert classic, turning it into a satire on modern mores. In October the publisher will collect into a single volume the series Black Hole, Charles Burns' inky creepfest about a plague that infects teenagers during the 1970s. And the summer will see the release of The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar, a philosophically inclined French comic artist. Splashy comics from other publishers include Lost Girls (Top Shelf...
...election campaign, Bush told Rove, it would be all too easy to focus on just three things: "raising the money, running the television ads and moving around the country in the big blue bird." But Bush had no interest in a classic corporate Republican operation that had a lot of money and not much passion. The Democrats are supposed to be the party with the deep grass roots and the ardent volunteers, but in 2000 Bush had managed to draft an army that saw itself as a band of outsiders storming the gates. "It gave people a lot of energy...
...past all the cussing, this cookbook could be your new best friend in the kitchen. Bourdain's passion for food is contagious, and his precise instructions go a long way toward helping make classic bistro cooking, from fris?e aux lardons to boeuf bourguignon, less intimidating for the home cook. Don't worry?the book comes in a brown paper wrapper...
...excellent actor, balancing the heavy drama with nuanced cool, and the comic—well, he never really had a problem with that. At one point Brooks even adds a little meta-joke about the Sandler character: annoyed with one of his employees Sandler bursts into one of his classic “the price is wrong—bitch” fits of anger and then calmly says to his confused employee, “that’s right—that was an unusual way to make myself understood.” While his performance probably won?...