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...BRUISING BUS ACTUALLY SPENT HIS FREE TIME BOWLING WITH HIS FAMILY? I bowled until high school--I even had a 300 game. My mother and father, they were very clever in the way they managed our time away from school. And so their way to keep an eye on us was to take us bowling. The weekends were consumed with bowling events, and so I didn't have time to get in too much trouble. It was a pretty clever trick...
Keep Your Eye on the Bottom Line Perle says ruefully, "I had drunk the cultural Kool-Aid that told me that having a husband meant social and fiscal security and that I wouldn't have to deal with my own financial well-being...
...wrenching issues facing IMMIGRANTS, including the sense of living a secret life, emerged into the public eye two decades...
Tatsumi's The Push Man collects stories written in 1969, with an eye towards annual volumes that will collect more of this prolific artist's decades-long career. Totally absent of giant robots, schoolgirl romantic melodrama or any manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities. Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude. Editor Adrian Tomine (author of Summer Blonde), correctly points...
...history. The hidden curriculum of our decade-plus of education has been that the world from now on will simply consist of democracy and capitalism ever-continuing, ever-expanding. This writer has nothing but love for the former and no beef with the regulated latter. Without a critical eye, however, it is too easy nowadays to accept other aspects of our world as permanent as well. Widespread hunger, devastating epidemics, intolerable unemployment, savagely unequal schools that lead to the mass incarceration of people of color—all these horrors come to be seen as inevitable, or even natural...