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...Letter press is popular now for different reasons,” he says. “You can make much more beautiful things here than you can make with offset. It’s the quality of the ink and the paper...
...course, the airlines are already in the midst of a pretty bad scenario, as the report notes. A few causes of the pain include a frail underlying economy, high fuel prices, fear of terrorism and war, and increased security costs. The moribund combination leads to gushing red ink for the airlines. But there has been a silver lining for consumers: airfares are lower than they were in 1988 in nominal, not inflation-adjusted dollars...
...Well, here is the real stuff. Not a neo-noir homage, but the genuine india-ink original, "Nightmare Alley" combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, "Freaks" with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel. As adapted by Spain, "Nightmare" pulls you into a secret world, with its own colorful language. "You can go back to carny and find another kootch show. But I want to have big dough," is a typical line, delivered when Molly hesitates on trying out the spiritualist "dodge." Throughout the book you get a privileged inside look at the tricks...
...Neill did have a working printer, although it ran out of ink, which had to be replaced...
...intensifies this feeling, as do marginal notes and inscriptions. In the introduction to her recent study Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, H.J. Jackson mentions the scene in Wuthering Heights where the narrator, Lockwood, flips through one of Catherine’s books and finds “pen-and-ink commentary…covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.” I have rarely been lucky enough to find so heavily-annotated a used book, but—even after reading brief and inane notes as “God needs to forgive Hal himself...