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...gamut of styles, from serious short fiction to satire to autobiography. While "Same Difference" has the quality of a young artist looking for his own voice by mimicking others, Kim adds enough smarts and talent to make it all seem fresh. One of the most important ingredients is a frisson of Asian American spice. Born in Korea and raised in the States from the age of eight - Korean Americans call such immigrants "1.5"s - Kim's comix stand virtually alone in their depiction of Asian American lives. Only Adriane Tomine, author of "Optic Nerve" and obviously a major influence...
...dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open to his closest confidantes about his sexual proclivities...
...Hustler magazine called The Crimson for more information. Even other countries were eager to weigh in on the matter with articles surfacing as far away as India and Australia. The Guardian, a major newspaper in London, wrote: “A pair of women students have delivered a frisson to the fusty realms of Harvard, an institution previously associated with gawky teenage genius and the American establishment.” Despite the fact that H Bomb is currently just the whimsical proposal of two college students—who happen to go to Harvard—the media seems...
...bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers a delicious horror-movie frisson...
...frisson of that moment conveyed, as well as anything else yet put onstage, the horribleness of that day, when everything changed. It's what theater can help us recapture and never forget. Helicopters not required...