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Actually it was a big deal. I think the whole thing of Brits working for American comics was a big deal. Because America was like this fabled foreign land. When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's Spider-Man fights used to happen in and around. So it's always been this kind of exotic babylon...
...beats give way to arpeggios produced by a hand wandering aimlessly over a piano. If nothing else, the Knux show that the form, texture, and feel of rap and hip-hop—regardless of what is being said or sung—can venture as far as the land of hipster and further, beyond what anyone thought profitable or even sensible. —Reviewer Jenny J. Lee can be reached at jhlee@fas.harvard.edu...
...gazed up at him through her eyelashes, the rays of the sun streaming behind her so Frederick blinked at the radiance. Wordlessly, she reached out her arms. “O, my America!” Frederick gasped, his voice soft with longing. “My New-Found-Land!” Roxanna guided him toward her. Frederick hesitated. She was so pure, so good. But Roxanna’s hands were insistent. “Frederick,” she whispered. “I am your temple.” Her rosebud lips opened in a wordless...
...times, there remain gems of insight in his writing that make a reading of “The Prophet” today as worthwhile as when it first hit the scene.The book tells the story of a wanderer named Almustafa who has spent 12 years in a foreign land observing its people, and is about to set sail back to his homeland. In 27 short verse-essays, the prophet guides the people in their way of life, spanning topics from the mundane—“Eating and Drinking,” “Houses...
...almost daily occurrence in wet and steamy Singapore, work goes on as usual at the Marina Bay site of Las Vegas Sands' $4 billion resort and casino project. The earthmovers scoop and dump the soft soil, and workers fan out across the city-state's most coveted piece of land, which girdles the central business district and offers a sweeping view over the emerald waters of the Malacca Straits...