Word: graphically
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...hardly needs graphic sex to be entertained—Jane Austen remains wildly popular, after all. A good writer’s illuminating prose and tense plot set-ups would be more than adequate substitutes for detailed bedroom scenes. But Krinsky’s vapid characters are so irritating that halfway through, the reader might begin praying for them to start randomly coupling. The most provocative parts of “Chloe” are its slightly altered chapter-ending reprints of Krinsky’s actual “Sex and the (Elm) City” columns (now bylined...
...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...
...women of "Embroideries" console a distraught member in Marjane Satrapi's new graphic novel...
...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...