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Robert and Kyuja Kafka never thought they would need a scholarship for their son Gene, who is enrolled to start college in September. The Kafkas had saved diligently through a tax-favored college fund. But along with their retirement kitty, the Kafkas' college savings are dwindling. It's an urgent problem that many families with college-age children now face: while retirement is still some years away, college, which they thought they had prepared for, is suddenly a crisis. Some parents are postponing their children's education; others are bypassing private schools in favor of good old State...
...reputation: cover-story tributes in the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic; the opera made from his novel Valis; the issuing of old novels (some published for the first time) in spiffy editions; a generation of readers avid for his teeming, dystopic visions. "What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century," wrote Maus author Art Spiegelman, "Philip K. Dick is to the second half...
...shadowy people walking under a solitary rain cloud, clocks embedded in the graves in a cemetery—and the Kafkaesque: Indeed, one of Dumala’s fake film “advertisements” proclaims “Miniature Film Studio Presents a Piotr Dumala Film: Franz Kafka.” All of the figures in Dumala’s drawings display a unique, fascinating dynamism and animation, like actors captured in motion within film stills...
...Roslyn’s Dog,” the last story in Dogwalker, the narrator gets bitten by his neighbor, Roslyn’s dog. In a Kafka-like twist, the narrator wakes up with a hairy patch on the spot where he was bitten. Before long, he has turned into a dog and gets kissed by the dog that has bitten him. This dog turns into a woman, and the narrator has become Roslyn’s new dog. “Rosyln’s Dog,” is a prime example of Bradford?...
...Hitler (Dick Shawn in the film) was junked as too dated. (Hitler is now played by the show-within-a-show's gay director.) And the movie's ending, with Bloom and Bialystock in prison, has been altered, so that the pair end up winners. What, you were expecting Kafka...