Word: graphically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...original Battle Royale set off a maelstrom even before it hit the screens in December 2000. Based on a popular 1999 novel by Koushun Takami, the film's graphic, almost gleeful violence, most of it perpetrated by school kids against each other, provided an easy target for conservative politicians eager to blame pop culture for a youth-crime wave sweeping the country. The free publicity boosted Battle Royale to a stratum of box-office success usually reserved for cartoons and TV-drama spin-offs. The film raked in $25 million in Japan alone?a formidable haul, given the depressed state...
...this year at least, attendees totally scored. Several publishers had advance copies of books that amounted to a summer comix reading list. The biggest draw at the festival must have been Craig Thompson?s ?Blankets? (Top Shelf; $29.95). A giant, 500+ page graphic novel about growing up in Wisconsin, it has generated a tremendous amount of buzz, causing swarms of people to hover around the artist and his mountain of books. A deep and powerful work, it tells the story of a teenager growing up in an austere, fundamentalist Christian family. His struggles with faith and self-identity...
...media muzzling comes as a nasty shock to Chinese publications, which were being granted greater latitude by leaders anxious to atone for having concealed the extent of the SARS crisis. In recent weeks, newspapers have called for more oversight of political leaders and exposed the case of a young graphic designer beaten to death in police custody. But the Beijing New Times, apparently stepped over the line with a commentary called "China's Seven Disgusting Things," which accused the National People's Congress of being undemocratic and asked, "who elected these delegates...
...progress. The 27-year-old carpenter's son had worked his way out of a remote village in China's central Hubei province to a university in the provincial capital of Wuhan. He graduated with an arts degree, then later moved to Guangzhou, landing a job as a graphic designer and the chance to make a home in new China's glittering boomtown. But three weeks into his new life, Sun's luck ran out. On his way to an Internet caf?, he was stopped by police and asked for his ID. When Sun said he had left...
...heartbreaking loss of Space Shuttle Columbia over the skies of Texas this Saturday was a graphic illustration of what happens when our dreams dissolve into frightening nightmares. But we must not let this unfortunate disaster make us afraid of dreaming ever again...