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...imagined by Tardi, Nestor Burma has an ovular face with two dots for eyes and a permanent scowl. In profile, his face appears flat, like a blank wall, except for a bump of a nose and a pipe sticking out of a mouth that never opens, even when speaking. Tardi works in the classic French bandes dessinee style (a close match to the work of Japanese comix master Osamu Tezuka, incidentally) with near-photographic reproductions of backgrounds that the flat, "cartoonish" characters inhabit. The "Tintin" mysteries by Herge are the most famous example of this style, which Tardi updates with...
...contact high because I never did inhale - never have, since trying it once as a kid and thinking, "People take this stuff into their lungs?" But I must have become habituated to the act of smoking. I took a year off in the 70s, then tried a pipe, some little cigars, and back to cigarettes. In the 80s, while at the Cannes Film Festival, I discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort...
...said flames probably climbed through a pipe chase—the area between the inner and outer wall where heating and water pipes go from floor to floor—to the upper floors...
...this disorder of the stomach and esophagus can also strike children, especially if they eat large quantities of chocolate, peppermint or spearmint candies. These treats tend to open up the valve between the esophagus and the stomach and allow food mixed with acid to pass back into the food pipe, causing the uncomfortable burning sensation in the chest that gives heartburn its name...
Harvard’s history with concerts prompted some to wonder how popular last night’s event would be. The concert was the first big name pop music event—aside from an appearance by the Verve Pipe at Springfest 2002—in more than two years. But last night’s audience far exceeded the roughly 900 who attended that concert, an October 2001 performance by Dispatch in Sanders Theater...