Word: graphic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jewish women's volunteer organization Hadassah, has written a new book, out Aug. 25, about her yearlong extramarital affair with swindler Bernie Madoff, titled Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me. Voyeurs won't be left wanting for dirt; the salacious tell-all chronicles their trysts in graphic, almost vengeful detail. Ironically, the 60-year-old Weinstein, who calls Madoff a "beast" and a "monster," has done more than anyone else to humanize the inscrutable investment scammer, painting him as an insecure man capable of tender courtship and dashing romance. Weinstein, whose family was forced to sell their...
...TIME graphic on swine...
...confront his thirst for riches when he finds himself the subject of a Truman Show - like plot. In the final story, "Urgent Request," a mousy, ridiculed office assistant puts her faith - and money - in an unsolicited e-mail purportedly concocted by a desperate Nigerian prince. (See the top 10 graphic novels...
...three distinct styles, from Disney pastiche to childish simplicity and monochromatic detachment, this is poignant stuff. The Eternal Smile lacks the focus and anger that dripped from the pages of American Born Chinese, but like that work it stresses the importance of confronting reality - ironic, when comics and graphic novels are often labeled as fantasy by their detractors...
...tightly focused on candidates and political issues almost to a fault - glossing over the broader cultural momentum that helped propel Obama to a decisive win. There is no mention of Will.i.am's viral "Yes We Can" music video that galvanized youth support, or of Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous "Hope" graphic, which lent the candidate street cred and fed the perception that he hovered above conventional politics. The authors mention Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live impression of Sarah Palin, but don't convey the damage it inflicted by so deftly portraying her as a perky airhead (many now believe Palin...