Word: flips
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...women cartoonist collections, Kelso uses the book to explore the more subtle theme of the way women treat the narrative form differently than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent...
...MOMA's seven-member Architect Selection Committee was so low-tech?so unlike anything seen in architectural pitches in decades?that Riley remembers it as a near disaster. "Taniguchi is not what you'd call trained in the art of salesmanship," he says. "There were no special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen in my life." But once Taniguchi focused on his design and began pointing out the salient features of his model, says...
...Launching A Human-Rights Offensive The North Korean regime's disposition to starve its own people is just the flip side of its disposition to play nuclear shakedown abroad. Look for a new push on North Korean human rights next year. The U.S. will soon appoint a special envoy for the issue, under the new North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004. And the European Union may want to cooperate with Washington on this one, given that Pyongyang is the world's worst violator. The self-described human-rights champions who run South Korea these days will be shamefully AWOL...
Headlines. The headline of that last story, by the way, was “State’s Dem Chairman Flip-Flops on Resignation.” Flip-Flop: such a neutral term with absolutely no political charge. By this week, the online archivists at the Herald must have gotten the message, editing the headline to read: “State’s Chief Dem Changes his Mind About Resignation...
...When you lose a national champion, obviously we’re going to feel that loss,” head coach Jay Weiss said. “But, on the flip side, Jesse raised the bar for this program...