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...Middle East there were white middle-class demonstrators waddling around under placards saying, we are all Hizballah now. They're suffering from what Paul Berman calls rationalist naivete. They think there must be historical reasons why this is happening, and this is all our fault. If someone's got dark skin, there's a very good chance that we f---ed them up in the past, and therefore anything they do to us is morally intelligible. They haven't sensed that this is in fact a millennial death-cult which is on the rise...
...them made people not feel that it was all in good fun." Whether it was a dour-looking hitchhiker holding an axe and a pack of Budweiser, or a group of bankers in masks in a mock hold up of its customers, Sunday night 's offerings contained a decidedly dark message that, according to UCLA 's brain scans, may not translate into...
...head and said in a loud and firm voice, ''I'm not guilty! I have nothing to confess.'' The young man from the police pulled my arms behind my back and put the handcuffs on my wrists. Then we got into the Jeep and drove off into the dark streets...
...daily expenditures. Why? Because you have something to hide!'' That night I had a nightmare, the first of many: I was on the narrow ledge of a sheer rocky cliff by the sea. The roaring waves of the incoming tide were rising to engulf me. It was pitch dark, I was utterly alone, and I was petrified...
...Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close...