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...atypical marriage, with his open philandering and her taking a permanent lover she calls her "second husband," seems par for the course for a woman determined to escape the banality of "ordinary" American life. In spite of its unconventional nature the Crumb's relationship certainly appears to be a model of support and mutual fulfillment. Can it really be true? While Need More Love reveals all the pain of growing up, either Kominsky Crumb has been blessed with a near perfect marriage or something's missing...
...When it works, which is 90% of the time, Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love provides a fascinating opus of an important cartoonist's work and a model for autobiographical comix. Kominsky Crumb seems to hold nothing back and has created a startling, frequently uproarious snapshot of art and life in postwar "jerk" America...
...winner will have to dispel the pains that Americans want to leave behind and deliver the triumphs they long for. American voters are asking for change, but just what kind of change is unclear to many people of the world. We'll have to wait, watch the model democratic institution at work and learn. Mamora Olusegun Victor Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria...
...Brien and Badaracco, who is also Shad Professor of business ethics at the Business School, were, by all accounts, model House Masters. From redesigning Currier’s fishbowl, transforming it from a de facto dance studio, unused by Currierites, into a center of House life, to constantly making themselves available to their students, Badaracco and O’Brien made Currier not only a welcoming place to spend three years, but an immensely desirable one. Upon being quadded on blocking day, those freshmen who saw Currier’s tree on their blocking cards could take solace in knowing...
...said co-captain Gideon Valkin, Denenberg’s doubles partner. “That’s a very big deal on our team. Slowly and surely he became more of a team man. By junior year he was a total leader. He was the role model of hard work; he showed great initiative.” Now a senior, Denenberg’s place on the team is secure, but his ethic has not slackened. He is the embodiment of his coaches’ advice to the team to maintain an “underdog mentality...