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...Still, Fun Home's personal exegesis can read a little too much like a personal essay with illustrations, rather than a fully organic work of graphic literature. The author often insists on telling us about an event, with critical hindsight, in a running narration over the tops of panels that simply duplicate what you read. For example, in one scene Alison must help her father hang a mirror in her already over-decorated room. "I hate this room," she says in the panels. "When I grow up my house is going to be all metal, like a submarine." This says...
...really believe female warriors ran around wearing little more than a metal brassiere? If Nintendo is serious about wanting to reach the female audience, it should treat us with some respect. We like questing too! Michelle Hedstrom Santa Clara, California, U.S. Faith and Politics Columnist Andrew Sullivan, in his essay "My Problem with Christianism" [May 15], drew a distinction between Christianity and faith-based conservatism and expressed what many of us in the mainline denominations have been thinking and feeling for a while. Although I hate to admit it, there have been occasions when I have been embarrassed to tell...
Columnist Andrew Sullivan, in his Essay "My Problem with Christianism" [May 15], drew a distinction between Christianity and faith-based conservatism and expressed what many of us in the mainline denominations have been thinking. Although I hate to admit it, there have been occasions when I have been embarrassed to tell others I am a minister because of the association that often gets made between people of faith and a particular political or social ideology. It is past time for those of us who believe in the all-inclusive love of God as found in Jesus to speak out against...
Sullivan's Essay was a concise statement of the grounds for the separation of church and state. The President has on occasion insisted that our battle with terrorism is not with those of the Muslim faith. But his rhetoric linking his political positions to his religious faith does little to reassure those around the globe that the present Administration is not striving to achieve a Christian theocracy. Never in U.S. history has it been so important for Americans to examine the relationship among religion, faith and government...
...most piquant, floated by one French insider, had the Palme d'Or going to the Portuguese film Colossal Youth. If so, this would be the upset of the movie millennium. Variety's Justin Chang described the film as "a numbing, nearly three-hour fusion of documentary and dramatic essay that will hold the Portuguese director's coterie of fans in rapt attention while proving a colossal bore to everyone else...