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The audience at his installation heard it. Doctors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center heard it. Donors with deep pockets heard it. Even students as far away as Beijing University got the message.
Sweating up the back pockets of traveling salesmen during the 1930s, the so-called Tijuana Bibles were the first truly "underground" comix. Pure pornography, these crudely printed eight-page pamphlets put popular comicstrip characters in more "adult" situations, expounding on the likes of Dagwood's obvious oral fixation. Later the...
The images, of course, will not go away: the planes exploding in flames, bodies falling through the air. And in their wake, more mundane but still disquieting pictures--endless lines in the airports, armed guards watching as shoeless innocents empty their pockets (while across the world people clamor for America...
With the financial crash came a sharp decline in bank lending to property speculators, coupled with a steep increase in unemployment. Consumers kept their hands in their pockets, the designer fashion stores left town, and magazines ran pictures of empty shopping malls. Such recovery as Asia saw in the late...
History is against the independents. Family-run companies in Asia have a lengthy record of lining the pockets of relatives and friends at the expense of ordinary investors through sometimes murky backroom deals. Last year, for example, a family controlling Hong Kong-listed leather trader Dah Hwa International awarded itself...