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...Staggering Genius.") Ware's influence can be seen even before you tear off the shrink-wrap (an ironic touch given Ware's disdain for polybagged, untouchable collector's comics). The cover appears deconstructed. And it is, sort of. The dust jacket unfolds into a 29 x 21 3/4 inch, poster-size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary Panter's giant mandala of cartoon and fine-art characters through the ages. Ingeniously, when wrapped around the book, the poster forms a pocket on the front and back in which sit - surprise! - two mini-comix...
...Theater Festival, Nefes is a three-hour show based on three weeks that Bausch and her 30 dancers spent in Istanbul, roaming the city's markets, back streets and waterfronts. Dressed typically in a classic black trouser suit, hair pulled back tightly into a bun, Bausch is still every inch the ballerina. Her long, slim fingers are rarely without a cigarette or cup of black coffee. Even after hundreds of sold out performances in the world's most prestigious venues, she is unable to eat or drink before a show. "I am always so nervous," she says, smiling. Her perfectionism...
...laboratory research herself, working as a dorm crew captain, or dancing in the Gumboots dance troupe, Mohamed was eager to share her love of astronomy. An active member of Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR), Mohamed taught classes for Harvard students and affiliates on how to use the 10-inch refractor telescope housed in the Loomis-Michael Observatory on top of the Science Center...
...Return of the Dancing Master (New Press; 391 pages), gives homicide a moody elegance. The victim, Herbert Molin, was a retired police officer with a fondness for jigsaw puzzles who lived in a remote, wooded part of the country. So why would somebody take the trouble to whip every inch of skin off his back and the soles of his feet? And why would that person leave behind bloody footprints in the pattern of a tango step at the crime scene...
...water was rising about an inch a minute as the tide was coming in, so I had to get moving or drown. I had to reach a 15-ft. seawall, which appeared to be 200 yds. in front of me. Finally, I came to dry sand, and there was only another 100 yds. or maybe less to go, and I started across the sand, crawling very fast. The Germans in the pillbox on the right flank were shooting up the sand all about me. I expected a bullet to rip through me at any moment. I reached the stone wall...