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...Cranium size of the "Hobbit." Modern man has an 85-cu.-in. braincase...
Three-quarters of the way through my college career, I’m pretty content too. My typical Saturday night used to be a round of Apples to Apples or Cranium. Now, I am more likely drinking rounds of screwdrivers and White Russians. But really, I’m not meeting or hanging out with more people than I did before. Partying has been fun, but aside from my freshman year dormmates, the older and younger people with whom I spend quality time are the people I met through TCS. The ones who took me on dim sum runs...
...love roller coasters. I love good red wine. I love playing games. That's the way I would rather party--a bunch of friends, some red wine and [the board game] Cranium. I don't think you could have a better Saturday night...
...Mart, and many are shutting down. Since last season's brutal price war--led by Wal-Mart--KB Toys and FAO Schwarz have closed roughly 600 stores between them. Toys are increasingly merchandised as impulse items at drugstores, supermarkets and even coffee shops. Starbucks has sold loads of the Cranium board game. KB, operating under bankruptcy protection, says it will close 164 of its remaining 820 stores in January. FAO now consists of just two stores and a luxury catalog hawking, uh, toys like a tyke-size Mercedes convertible--a bargain at $15,000 (top speed: 15 m.p.h...
...cartoonist delves so eagerly into the contents of his compromised cranium, he loses all sense of perspective. He seems to have no interest in the anguish of others--the actual victims, for example--or in why the attacks occurred. When he describes himself as "equally terrorized" by al-Qaeda and by his own government, he's giving us an equation that just doesn't balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky...