Word: deserter
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...usual amazons) while managing to give them some of the most credible and sympathetic voices in any medium. The absurd violence likewise plays with the old scenarios. Issue three begins with a daring horseback rescue that quickly ends with an explosion, raining horse and man over the desert...
...portrays those who choose public service as careers, and I think it's for the better. Only a few years ago, the government worker was, typically, the bumbling postal work Cliff on "Cheers." The elected official was usually some sinister guy in a black limousine with helicopters in the desert ready to subvert the Constitution. Buffoons or creeps, but nothing very attractive...
...Koreans call it "the gate-crasher of spring." Every year, huge storms of fine yellow sand, churned up by winds in the Gobi Desert, swirl across northeastern China and descend on the peninsula, obscuring visibility and dusting everything in yellow. Last week's storm-2002's first-was Korea's worst in at least 40 years. Dust concentrations were 20 times normal in parts of Seoul. Worse still, some scientists now fear the crud clouds are picking up toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, as they cross China's northeastern industrial belt. The pollutant payload is small but "very, very...
...poetry of "Krazy Kat" goes beyond its ambiguity of meaning. Herriman's images and language make for pure, direct pleasure. The characters live in a fantastical desert landscape made of potted Joshua trees, adobe jails and giant disembodied elephant's feet. As Krazy argues with Ignatz over whether summer comes before winter the background magically changes from panel to panel - Ignatz on a road; Ignatz atop a mesa; Ignatz in a birdbath, etc. Herriman's simple device to keep readers entertained both narratively and visually goes right the heart of a pure comic art. Cartooning has no obligations to reality...
...only the voters who are disenchanted. The mainstream right is rent by personal rivalries among 50-somethings who resent the way that Chirac, running in his fourth presidential election, is blocking their ascent. Jospin's coalition is creaking at the seams as voters desert the communists and the greens squabble. The sense of déja vu is intensified by the next two candidates. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, third in the polls, draws support from a backward-looking array of old socialists and nationalists. The leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie...