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When the film moves off the diamond, Quaid is similarly assured. Despite his commanding leading-man presence— watch for his quick-flash smile, his upper lip a straight line across his face—the performance is humble, graceful; he never overwhelms the excellent supporting cast (Rachel Griffith as wife Lorri Morris, Brian Cox as Jim’s estranged father...
Siilats won the championship last year in dramatic fashion with a 1.86-meter leap while facing elimination, but couldn’t deliver in the clutch this time. Her best jump was 1.76 meters. Darnesha Griffith of UCLA won the meet at 1.85 meters...
...over 60 than any other American city,” that Rachel Morgan’s statement that he “could never be important in her life” caused many sleepless nights. The names of Watson’s many romantic interests grace the pages: Sheila Griffith, Linda Pauling, Rachel Morgan, Mariette Robertson, Margot Schutt, and Belinda Bullard. Most of all, though, Watson speaks about his relationship with Christa Mayr, daughter of Ernst Mayr, a famous biologist at Harvard...
...everything else, Griffith has brought back the art of drawing to the comics page. The "Zippy Annual" reprints the weekday strips at twice the size they normally get in the paper, revealing the fine pen work. Because of the reduced reprint size for most strips, only the most simplistic scribblers get rewarded. While many other strips look as if the cartoonists held the pen in their teeth, Griffith actually shades his work for depth and weight. The Sunday strips likewise use the color for effect rather than being merely colored-in. One Sunday strip has just two panels. The left...
...Ironically "Zippy" suffers newspaper reader's ire not because of its poor quality but because of the poor quality of the strips around it. As a victim of diminished expectations, collections of the strip such as "Zippy Annual 2001" eliminate that prejudice. But to me, Bill Griffith's art works best in the absurd and sad context of daily news. In fact, the San Francisco protesters had their fury appeased when the comics page editor announced to the crowed the re-instatement of "Zippy the Pinhead." Following a brief "huzzah" the protesters, in true Zippy spirit, reportedly began shouting "Cancel...