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...graphic novels have blossomed into a mainstream media, the author Marjane Satrapi became the most unexpected of those successes stories. Her first two books, "Persepolis" and "Persepolis 2," were both critical and commercial successes, defying expectations. Originally written in French, they focused on the author's story of growing up in revolutionary Iran and eventually becoming an expatriate in Europe. Even in the more expansive, but still male-dominated world of hi-end comix, the Persepolis books stood out. Satrapi's newest book, "Embroideries" (Pantheon; 112 pages; $17) continues her fascinating, entertaining examination of women's lives using the simple...
...technology is fast spreading to other professions as well. By mathematically building their scale models within a computer, architects can see what large buildings will look like from the ground, the air or the window of a high-rise across the street. Petroleum engineers can explore graphic versions of geological formations thousands of feet below the ocean floor without drilling. Physicians, manipulating the images produced by CAT scanners, can visually probe the brains of patients without having to perform exploratory surgery. Says Don Greenberg, director of computer graphics at Cornell University: "It's like having a doctor walk...
Throughout the play, directed by Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...
...nearby Faelledvej, the street leading away from Sankt Hans Torv, is Gef?hrlich, tel: (45) 3524 1324, where the first floor houses an elegant, relaxed restaurant, and the ground level a gallery, a caf? and a store that sells records and clothes. The venture was dreamed up by graphic designer Rikke Nogel, artist Eva Wandel, and musicians Sebastian Christensen and Konrad Jahn (the latter is a DJ at the club that commandeers the ground floor at weekends). The result is one of the city's hippest hangouts?a place where you can browse obscure vinyl and the latest fashions alongside...
...Faelledvej, the street leading away from Sankt Hans Torv, is Gefährlich, tel: (45) 3524 1324, where the first floor houses an elegant, relaxed restaurant, and the ground level a gallery, a café and a store that sells records and clothes. The venture was dreamed up by graphic designer Rikke Nogel, artist Eva Wandel, and musicians Sebastian Christensen and Konrad Jahn (the latter is a DJ at the club that commandeers the ground floor at weekends). The result is one of the city's hippest hangouts - a place where you can browse obscure vinyl and the latest fashions...