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...that attitude evolved as people learned to appreciate comics in all their uniqueness. "Comics require that the viewer read pictures, not look at them," says Chris Ware, author-artist of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and one of the medium's reigning grand masters. "This is a peculiar means of apprehension that really has no precedent in Western...
...going to lecture again, here comes the wave of “second midterms,” looming on the horizon like a storm cloud over an all-too-short sunny day. It would be disingenuous to act as though I’m at all surprised by this peculiar concept—“mid-terms” administered at points well beyond the halfway mark of the semester—since, after all, bizarre testing procedures are par for the course here at Harvard. But even alongside atypical practices such as holding finals after winter break...
...Heteronormative” is a peculiar (some would say vapid) invention that does not yet pack the rhetorical punch “homophobia” does, largely because the idea that underlies it is so absurd on the face of things...
...Legos, had lots of fascination about the technical aspect, and felt they could do it too,” says Musser. These landscapes, in fact, stimulate a sort of childish impulse: you want to take the paintings off the walls and play with them. It is a very peculiar experience in which a toy becomes art and art becomes a game. The people who actually rearranged the paintings sometimes took this task very seriously, and often felt that there was a “right way to do things,” according to Frey. Some of them were social...
...can’t imagine,” he says, shaking his head. “You cannot imagine how peculiar it is, because everyone is running around saying ‘Tony’ and ‘Harold’…and I was on the set every day. And watching these scenes that I recalled so vividly!” He shakes his head again, adding, “It’s ‘Twilight Zone...