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...marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...
...terrorism is two wars, one for men and one for women. The guys' war is special forces on horseback, video-game bombing runs against comic-strip evildoers. It dominates the headlines and the federal budget. Women are not squeamish about the use of force--pollsters suggest they're more interested in the war on terrorism than in any other foreign policy issue in recent history--but they tend to have a different priority: protection of hearth and home against the next terrorist attack...
...terrorism is two wars, one for men and one for women. The guys' war is special forces on horseback, video-game bombing runs against comic-strip evildoers. It dominates the headlines and the federal budget. Women are not squeamish about the use of force - pollsters suggest they're more interested in the war on terrorism than in any other foreign policy issue in recent history - but they tend to have a different priority: protection of hearth and home against the next terrorist attack...
...piece of fluff off her husband's face. Sophie's school calls with the news that Sophie just threw up. This would help explain why, in order to write, Chabon stashes himself away every morning in a small cottage behind the house, with his Bakelite radio, his framed original comic-strip panels and his Roberto Clemente baseball card...
...March, tapped a deep vein of nostalgia in South Korea, where a shaky economy and the go-go pace of life in the Internet fast lane have left many pining for simpler times. Koreans now routinely repeat the movie's best lines, using the rough accents of Pusan gangsters. Comic-strip versions circulate on the Internet, and tourists now make pilgrimages to Pusan. The movie has been particularly popular with men in their late 30s and 40s, who went to school when the Prussian-style uniforms worn by the movie's four "friends" were still obligatory. The film has sold...