Word: pantheons
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...time to address the relationship between comicbooks and "losers." It almost seems like the entire American comics industry revolves around people with unfulfilled potential. Marvel Comics, the industry's biggest publisher, built its entire pantheon on the concept of schlubs turning into muscular "winners." Meanwhile the underground press got its start by appealing to the counterculture's "turn on, tune in and drop out" attitude of the time. Both narcissistic and utterly self-loathing, unhappy outcasts need never look very far in the comix rack for cartoon versions of themselves...
...others like them, will be applied to the deeply-rooted flaws in much of the undergraduate curriculum. Improving the quality of instruction, which was the original motivation for the Administration’s plans, now lies with the curricular review. For now, preregistration can take its place in the pantheon of old news, next to Randy and Suzanne and the Snow Penis. Hopefully the still-needed reforms will not be next...
...pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, a swath of chartreuse and emerald green beneath a bolt of cobalt and pale blue. Millet was second only to Rembrandt in Van Gogh's pantheon, and he copied the older artist's works throughout his short life, working from prints or from memory, especially the iconic figure of the Sower. In 1889, he wrote to his brother Theo that "painting from these drawings of Millet's is much more like translating them into another language than...
...interest of uncovering just how unlike “other schools” Harvard truly is, two friends and I ventured southward over intersession to Florida State University (FSU), a legendary name in the pantheon of great party schools. It was my hope that a thorough examination of the FSU body social might be just the selfless act of public service that could reveal by comparison the major sources of Harvard’s social failings and potentially help remedy them once and for all. Even if I couldn’t single-handedly cure Harvard’s party...
Weisberger isn't the only assistant spilling the beans about fashion biggies. In her novel Diary of a Djinn (Pantheon), Gini Alhadeff, former features editor at Elle, portrays a fashion sovereign who resembles Giorgio Armani, once her boss. In Full Bloom (Dutton), Caroline Hwang, a former editor at Glamour, tells the story of a Korean-American woman climbing the fashion-magazine ladder. And there's another--Bergdorf Blondes (Miramax), by Plum Sykes, a Vogue editor. Leaks at Conde Nast? There's an absolute flood...