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Jimmy Corrigan requires a similar intensity from the reader. Ware's work is languorous but dense, interspersed with tiny print and pictures that force one to crane over it, literally trying to enter the book. Many of the spreads, including the fold-open dust jacket, are crazy quilts, stitched with dotted lines and arrows, as if the very seams were straining to contain the story. "You have to keep turning the book," says New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who first nationally published Ware in Raw magazine. "It's a dizzy-making, Oz-like tornado that takes you out of Kansas...
There's the wife of 23 years, the religious upbringing, the military career as a respected helicopter pilot, the new job as a $13.75-an-hour crane operator, the split-level home with forsythia bushes and a backyard barbecue. Yates sent out Christmas cards and won Army medals for meritorious service. "Bobby is a loving, caring, sensitive son; a fun-loving and giving brother; an understanding, generous and dedicated father who enjoys playing ball, fishing and camping with his kids," the Yates family said in their only statement to date. "Bobby is the type of person you would want...
...Back in the Yard, a large yellow crane joined the Harvard landscape in the fall, and renovations continue on Widener Library, as a central heating and cooling system, a fire suppression system and enhanced security features are installed...
...building boom continued this year. A huge yellow crane towering over Widener Library greeted students returning in the fall. The Maxwell Dworkin building on Oxford Street, funded by donations from Microsoft leaders William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and Steven A. Ballmer '77, was dedicated as a computer science center in October...
...works for the same pay. Filming is usually such a bore-it's usually about the bleepin' cappucino machine and people taking four hours in makeup and shit-so boring. There's no spontaneity-that's why I love TV, it's quicker. No dicking around with the big crane shot. I mean, tell a story for God's sake. But with Woody, it's obviously different. But still it was tough-I mean somedays, Woody would make me reshoot stuff and I would go home questioning myself...