Word: marvell
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...rebel about--their bedroom is not a battle you want to be engaged in," says Faull, who has two adult children living on their own and a teenage boy at home. When she goes into her son's room to remove hazardous waste, she looks beyond the chaos to marvel at his skillful setup of lighting and sound equipment...
...since Art Spiegelman's "Raw," during the 1980s, has New York City played any significant role in alternative comix. Perhaps because it's home to the mainstream industry (Marvel and DC are both located there) most of alternative comix' history has been born elsewhere. So it's nice to see a couple of new comix with ties to the Big Apple...
...Truman became the common man as unexpected force, a marvel of feisty and principled adequacies, and much tougher than the smug suits thought. Substitute "woman" for "common man," and you have Kay Graham. Low expectations at the start lead on to a handsome kind of vindication...
Chris Rock's voice is a marvel in and of itself, an unlikely fusion of gravel and pipsqueakitude. Always shouting but miraculously never hoarse, he's the bastard vocal son of Redd Foxx and Rosie Perez. And when it comes to American Bestness, Rock may be this project's least controversial selection. After all, TIME has already labeled the 35-year-old comedian "the funniest man in America" in a previous issue. His professed admirers include peers such as Woody Allen ("I'd love to work with him"), Richard Pryor ("Does he remind me of me? I'm afraid...
...explains. "Like AIDS or something that was going to consume me." Think about that?being a kid, 10, 11 years old, and knowing that at some point in the near future your world is going to go dark. Certainly it builds character?that mental toughness his fellow climbers marvel at?but in a child, the natural psychological defense would be denial...