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...forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else contain nothing at all, Herpich bounces the reader along. Combined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the "Cusp" | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...Screw You” and “Romance is Dead,” alongside stuffed black body bags. The movement is strongest in New York City, though Boston has its fans as well. This year the Bukowski Tavern—named after Charles Bukowski, that poetic champion of healthy relationships—is hosting its annual “F—k Valentine’s Day” night, which bans such Valentine’s standbys as hearts, chocolate, sappy music, displays of affection and any other signs of healthy relations...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: The V-Day Dialogues | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

Where to find you on a Saturday night: In my room with a Milwaukee’s Best and a severe depressive longing for poetic words to ease the pain. Listening...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...opinions expressed look upon Professor Murray's coming here as a definite step in intellectual progress. Unanimous comment has also been made on the fact that the word poetry in connection with this professorship is to be taken in its broadest sense and is to include poetic expression, not only in language, but in music and the fine arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPERS HAIL GILBERT MURRAY | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

...prose and given us more to look at. His highly detailed costumes and backgrounds have the sumptuousness of a Merchant and Ivory movie. This book in particular, with its lovely views of the French seaside, provides much to please the eye. The pictures perfectly compliment the dreamy, poetic text. A typical line by the narrator sums up the pleasures of this book: "I was attempting to find beauty where I'd never thought it might be, in the most ordinary of things, in the profundity of 'still lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newer; Faster; Better | 1/30/2003 | See Source »

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