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...personal past remains one the most popular forms of narrative art. Novels such as Henry Roth's Call It Sleep and movies such as Francois Truffaut's 400 Blows have taken thinly-veiled childhood autobiography and transformed them into masterpieces of their form. But since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such...
...Year-Old Virgin,” was the best time I had at the movies this summer. Steve Carell’s performance is so sincere and cute; maybe more so because I know quite a few (Harvard) guys reminiscent of his character. Anyone who’s gotten her legs waxed can’t help but appreciate his entirely unscripted chest-waxing scene. I think it’s one of the few recent comedies that is consistently and unfalteringly funny from beginning...
After having already abandoned the intellectual highway for the dirt road, Kuhls drives his argument straight into a lake by rattling off a history of big time players and schools who have gotten themselves into hot water with the NCAA...
...among the two or three youngest in attendance. White hair, canes, and motorized scooters were the norm for these parishioners. There were, of course, no altar boys, and the priest went about his business morosely, as if the mass were just a chore to be gotten through...
...shore and then struck, until around 7 p.m. Saturday to finally get word on whether they were headed to Lake Charles or Port Arthur-or home to Ohio. Even then, as the group broke camp and was ready to roll in 16 minutes, "we still haven't gotten the order-officially," said Aungst, rolling his eyes. Later, Dennis Waldbillig of Cincinnati explains. "We're all get up and go type of guys, and sitting around is tough. But we have to wait for the storm to quit," he says. Then "they got to find the places that we're needed...