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...story we did on the exhibition. "I hate that whole attitude and way of looking at this stuff. Lichtenstein did for comics what Warhol did for Campbell's Soup - it had nothing to do with comics. It had to do with exploiting the form without any of the content...
...McCay's ingenuity splashed from content to form and back again. Each huge page could be broken up into six horizontal strips or five vertical ones (showing an elephant getting bigger and scarier as it approaches). The panels might be in wavy shapes, when Nemo, Flip and Imp land in Befuddle Hall and their bodies elasticize into funhouse-mirror images. Or there'd be a large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner...
...company's focus was adrift. It had dabbled in creating content, a strategy it later cut back on, and had fallen further behind Google in generating revenue from its huge audience. Last November an agent provocateur emerged in Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president, whose leaked memo became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. He argued passionately that Yahoo! was wasting its talent by distributing its resources like peanut butter on a widening slice of bread. "The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular," Garlinghouse wrote. "I hate...
...interim government stumbles along, Thaksin seems content to adopt the role of happy retiree. He talks of cadging cooking ingredients off Thai massage therapists working in his building in Beijing so he can whip up his favorite omelettes and spicy prawn soup. And then there's the long list of shops to visit and friends to catch up with, all over the world. "You know, right after the coup, I was in the U.S., and I met some friends who gave me some cheese," says Thaksin. "I told them: 'Don't worry, I can still smile without cheese.'" The jokes...
...writers; we strive to make it a forum for our entire readership. We urge you to write to us with your own ideas—opinions of your own that you would like to see in print, or thoughts about how we might improve the page and its content. And if you see anything amiss on the page, such as factual errors, please let us know. You can send any feedback, whether you’d like it to be published or not, to letters@thecrimson.com. We print about 4,000 words each day, and we’d be happy...