Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky?who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out?discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner...
...Staff, has been presenting lawmakers with charts showing the deployment of warplanes around the world and the threat they represent to American security. What Ralston doesn't point out is that this ominous global collection of nearly 6,000 advanced warplanes includes those of Britain, France, Canada--everyone except the U.S. Nor does he mention that many of the warplanes on his chart rolled off U.S. assembly lines...
...recently told the people of Minnesota, who do not, that without major league sports the Twin Cities would be like Des Moines, "absolutely dead," which caused some consternation in Iowa and not much in Minnesota, where the fear of being like Des Moines, or necrophobia, is not so potent, except in Minneapolis, of course...
...surgical abortions are gruesome) and for what we don't know--the number of procedures and the medical circumstances. But it is also disturbing because it forces us to confront when and why these procedures happen. Most of us assume that later-term abortions are rare, indeed prohibited, except in the gravest circumstances. We're wrong...
...remind viewers of some of the more interesting and surreal experimentation done later by Robert Crumb and others in the psychedelic "head comix" of the American 1960s). In the category "Science Fiction and Fantasy," the visitor will find that a comic strip genre popular in nearly every country except, for whatever reason, the United States. Here you'll see the original incarnation of "Barbarella" in Jean-Claude Forest's slinky black-and-white panels and the classic work of Jean Giraud, a master of the realist style known to science-fiction comics readers throughout Europe and the United States...