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...TRILLION BUSINESS around the world, a staggering figure that includes everything from the shopper on New York City's Fifth Avenue who swoops into Cartier and splurges on a Trinity ring to the gemstone buyer in Jaipur, India, who buys a handful of uncut moonstones while sitting in the gutter on a busy market street. Shopping is primordial and social at the same time. If you need a new computer, you go to the Apple store. And, incidentally, the folks at Apple have made it incredibly easy to hang out there for a while, maybe buy some more stuff...
...filled with careful detail taking particular delight in the variety of people's comical facial characteristics such as broken noses, buck teeth and wide foreheads. Although the printing is clear and the lines are sharp, there are no margins around the artwork, so the panels often bleed into the gutter of the spine. Sometimes you have to press the book with the palm of your hand to read the words. Dialogue has also been carelessly allowed to overlap the edges of the balloons in some cases and sound effects have been messily overlaid on the original Korean characters...
...with in “8 Mile,” comparisons to Eminem’s silver screen debut are still inevitable. The pitch is simple: Take one of the world’s most famous rappers and make a movie about his Horatio Algiers-like ascent from the gutter to the limelight. Easy, right? But unfortunately, “Get Rich” strays from the “8 Mile” formula and finds itself caught between a “drug movie” and a “rap movie” without really committing...
...always loved, most of all with doing comics, the fact that I knew I was in the gutter. I kind of miss that, even these days, whenever people come up and inform me, oh, you do graphic novels. No. I wrote comic books, for heaven's sake. They're creepy and I was down in the gutter and you despised me. 'No, no, we love you! We want to give you awards! You write graphic novels!' We like it here in the gutter...
...care of the elderly people." Fuqua saw a neighbor using his empty refrigerator as a rowboat to paddle through the water to get help for his pregnant wife. When the buoyant refrigerator tipped, Fuqua dove off a second-story balcony to help and sliced his feet on a rain gutter. "I was going to make sure everyone...