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...famous scene when Bill tells her the truth about Monica--are packaged like fragile crystal, surrounded by rhetorical Styrofoam. There are many sentences, sometimes whole paragraphs, that snooze along reflexively: "I wanted to guard the social safety net--health care, education, pensions, wages and jobs--that was in danger of fraying for citizens less able to absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last, a political memoir, and the leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician...
...some nifty use of computer-generated (CG) wizardry, as when the camera zips at Mach speed through the workings of a chromed-up engine. But he insists on the visual veracity of real stuntmen putting their pride and lives on the line. "You want to keep a sense of danger," he says. "If you don't have that, there's no point in doing it." Director F. Gary Gray, whose Italian Job is an update of a 1969 caper, says he strove for "a retro, fresh approach. I wanted to be able to communicate the danger, and that meant...
...Shrimpy and Paul." (A deluxe hardcover, "The Book of Frank," that collects all the disparate Frank stories, is being published this month by Fantagraphics Books.) Both systems operate under their own rules that always remain true to themselves. Woodring's Frank universe has a much darker set of rules. Danger lurks everywhere, with bizarre, often disguised creatures seeking to devour each other. It's a world mostly about karma. Marc Bell's creation has a much lighter tone, but no less intelligence. Enlightenment, prophesy and divinity are all themes played with by Bell, giving the Shrimpy-verse a greater depth...
...Have they gotten it yet? In this sense, fathers are a lot like baseball rookies. Even when we make it to the big leagues - and data indicates that the American dad's on-site batting average is, indeed, on the rise - we're always being closely watched, ever in danger of being sent back to the triple-A of second-class parent. Still, I have to answer the question. So who would I select as this year...
...Bangladesh: Dirty Bomb Danger...