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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...
...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...
...early years as the paradigm of student-faculty relations would be an egregious mistake. The expansion of the research university overseen by former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, may have furthered the descent of the school’s more intimate collegiate atmosphere, but the British Model showed signs of strain as early as the 18th century, when undergraduates and tutors ended their chummy camaraderie (or, perhaps, forced co-habitation) and lived increasingly apart and at odds...
...totally badass. Dancing frantically in bare feet, she giggles about, “making bombs with rubber bands,” daring anyone to fuck with her, as she’s an “outlaw from the badland.” What a trendsetter, what a role model. That M.I.A is too damn cool. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez