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After a kid in “Stuart” is punched in the nose, “he can’t understand…that someone should hit him for no reason, that things happen in the city for no reason, and blood can spring from nowhere...
...Daniel Callahan insisted that bioscientists didn?t absolutely need embryonic stem cells in their quest to cure certain intractable ailments, Watson roared from his seat: ?That?s crap.? Stunned into momentary silence, Callahan eventually replied that maybe scientists could use them under certain circumstances, ?but I?d hold my nose...
...What's particularly clever about "Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else...
...Administration intends to pile up as many instances of obstruction as possible. Iraq has thumbed its nose at high-altitude U-2 surveillance flights, refusing to guarantee their safety unless the U.S. and Britain stop patrolling the no-fly zones. The discovery a few weeks ago of Iraq's illicit acquisition of missile engines and purchases of barred chemical explosives indicates concrete violations of resolution terms. British officials have also compiled a list indicting Iraq for deliberately hampering inspectors during the past two months. They say Iraq has 20,000 intelligence officers engaged in disrupting inspections and concealing weapons. They...
Nicole Kidman, whose portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours won her a Best Actress Golden Globe (by a nose), looks at the women's genre and says, "There's an audience for that. There's a lot of us out there." Scott Rudin, The Hours' producer, sees the Christmas-to-Valentine season as "a good time for movies that aren't entirely aimed at teenage boys." Playwright David Hare, whom Rudin hired to adapt Michael Cunningham's novel, notes the glut of year-end prestige movies: "All the intelligent films come out at exactly the same time, because they...