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...strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head on a platter. Their Dadaist adventures include having their apartment building dragged out of town by the vermin who live with them. "They couldn't stand the city. But why did they have to drag us out here and leave us," wonders Amy, in a typically Beyerian "punch line." Other strips read like...
...Wisconsin, people have to earn their make, as opposed to Harvard where everything is handed to them on a silver platter,” said Derek Y.M. Opert, a junior at Wisconsin. “That way, when we leave school, we’re better socially prepared and ready to make a killing...
...opened Oliver, a chic restaurant at the Sports Club/LA in Beverly Hills, Calif., in February, laments that gym entrees can't be quite as rich as the French dishes he grew up with in Paris. "When I go out, I want to taste a little salt, sugar, have a platter of cheese and charcuterie ..." he says, trailing off as he recalls feasts of yore. Few of those fatty foods make the cut at his restaurant, but Oliver couldn't resist putting a rich chocolate mousse on the menu. Will gym rats splurge as a post-workout reward? Says Oliver with...
...juror offered her view that when things went to hell at Tyco, the Ivy League--educated, Waspy board of directors closed ranks and served up, in her words, the "Polack and the Jew" on a platter for a D.A. eager to make an example of somebody--anybody--for the corporate greed of the late '90s. (Never mind that there was no testimony about Kozlowski's roots or that Swartz is even Jewish.) That was the first indication that the soon-to-be-infamous Juror No. 4, Ruth Jordan, wasn't going to make our job any easier. Jordan...
Last night’s game, in front of a crowd of 10,506 fans, marked the eighth straight championship for the Canadians and the eighth straight time America has gone home with the silver platter...