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...remember "Henry," the wordless gag strip about the boy with the chipmunk cheeks? Imagine he has a stubby tail and a triangle nose - that's Frank. Now imagine "Henry"'s simple, "silent" stories taking place in a world of abstract angels, mutated frogs and other Jungian visions of the unconscious, and you have "Frank," the comic by Jim Woodring, published by Fantagraphics Books...
...culpability in the case of massacres of Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut in 1982. Sharon's own popularity in this year's polls was eclipsed by that of Netanyahu, despite his having been hounded out of office by an electorate all but holding its nose some 18 months ago. And of course the man they elected by a near landslide to replace him was the same Ehud Barak they have now resoundingly rejected...
...When the ancient Egyptians embalmed their dead, they ground up the brain with a metal hook and drained it through the nose. They reasoned that the heart was the seat of intelligence and the brain was a marginal organ...
...Broder's nose for "a broad and strong constituency" may be right; after all, here's a man who's been around Washington longer than the Potomac. And matching new programs directly against the public pocketbook would certainly prick up a few voter ears. But there's already a "broad and strong constituency" for economy in government, along with one for campaign finance reform, a cleaner environment, improving the nation's schools and ending poverty, and look where that's gotten the voters. That's why only half of them vote...
...Fassel wants to impose a strict week-long curfew for his players. Then again, though, the worst-behaving Giants might not be on this year's team. You know that Lawrence Taylor can't wait to relive the Tampa nightlife. Heck, LT probably even remembers where he scored some nose candy ten years...