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...working in, newsprint, required a strong, solid line that enclosed color. Also my reader at that time was a younger reader. Now I'm aiming at an adult. An adult has sufficient life experience that they can supply the background where I have a blank area. Another element in the change is that I feel the story has far more importance now than when I was working [on "The Spirit."] Anything that would interrupt the story, such as highly complex artwork, is no longer useful. You'll find that in the case superheroes and adventure stories, the artwork tends...
...Fortress of Solitude is a glorious, chaotic, raw novel, and God knows there are any number of ways to pick it apart. Lethem has adopted a furiously literary, poetic style that would look overwrought in the pages of an undergraduate literary magazine, and he gambles on a risky element of magical realism: the boys discover a magic ring that intermittently (it's capricious) gives them superpowers. But Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings to it a story worth telling: two brave boys whom an entire city couldn't tear apart...
Summers did confirm that putting undergrads across the river—which planners say would integrate Cambridge and Allston—was an element considered for the new campus at the deans’ meeting...
...SAUD: One major element is the policies of the United States in the Middle East. In the media every day, we see what is happening in Palestine. Public opinion is made by that. [People] see the violence, they see the indignity that the Palestinians are facing...
...SAUD: All the discussions that we had [with the U.S.] on Iraq were on concerns about what happens after the attack. It is not diplomatic to say "We told you so," but we told you so, that things won't work out. Keeping the security element in Iraq and running the government, the water, the electricity, would be the important elements. Iraq was ruled by perhaps 2 million military and paramilitary, and a million Baathists. You do away with that, and how do you run the country, with 50,000 or 250,000 troops? It is unmanageable...