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...compromise with William Pitt the Elder, but when that failed, he fled London under threat of arrest - just as the first shots were fired in Massachusetts. Time was not kind to the house: it took eight years to repair damage caused by neglect, a fire, shifting foundations and a hole in the roof left by an unexploded World War II German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner...
...Black Hole by Charles Burns (Pantheon...
...Released in tantalizing chapters over ten years, Charles Burns' atmospheric magnum opus of teenage sex and death has finally been collected as a hardcover book, creating the year's best graphic novel. Set in the 1970s, Black Hole uses the tropes of that decade's best horror movies -- bell-bottoms, sex, monsters, drug use and murder -- and twists them in unexpected ways to explore psychology, symbolism and the weirdness of growing up. A sexually transmitted disease called "the bug" mutates its teenage victims in creepy, disfiguring ways, giving one an extra mouth, and another a little tail. But rather than...
...Time was not kind to the house: it took eight years to repair damage caused by neglect, a fire, shifting foundations and a hole in the roof left by an unexploded World War II German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner in this house,'' director M?rcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through...
...Crimson responded with a 7-2 run of its own to pull within four at 46-42 midway through the second half, but untimely misses and uncharacteristically poor foul shooting left Harvard in too deep a hole for a late-game comeback...