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...This mood of "Foodboy" develops chiefly from Swain's remarkable comix pacing. She uses slam cuts to jump from one time and place to another, in mid-page with no visual cues, keeping you guessing about where and when a scene takes place. It's the kind of pleasant discombobulation you get from a midway hall of mirrors. You feel your way through. Swain also frequently inserts mute sequences that feel like poetic interludes. The narrative breathes. Her "camera" swirls around its subjects while they do nothing more than walk and light a cigarette. Each frame of a Carol Swain...
...honest. Did you actually write this? I wrote this one. But I know what you mean. Most celebrities, there's one word each page and there's a Laura Ashley drawing of a cat. That's what I wanted to avoid...
...this carnival atmosphere, Massino is an anomaly, an anachronism--the Masto-Don. He does not frequent posh nightclubs, Vegas high-roller rooms, designer-clothing stores or the front page of the New York Post. He does not care to give interviews (though he seemed amused when asked for one, and told a TIME reporter, "Have a nice day"). His couture is less dapper than schlepper: jeans and T shirts (he doesn't like wearing a tie), without the usual mobster adornments of a siliconed blond on each arm. He has never been accused of swagger. About as close...
...with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
...four of us [seniors Williamson, Brotemarkle, Goldberg and Montijo] are very much on the same page as far as what we’re looking for this season and what we expect of each other and of ourselves and everyone else.” Williamson adds. “So that’s great to have four people who are very in sync. All four of us are very vocal on the team...