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...alienated teenagers. In a key moment, Raina gives Craig a crazy-quilt blanket that she made. In return she asks him to paint a mural on her bedroom wall. In Raina, Craig finds his muse and reconnects with the urge to draw that he had recently abandoned as a pointless waste of God's time. This being a comic, we actually get to see this inspiration manifested. Thompson indulges in pages of Raina sleeping or typing, surrounded by fantastical imagery. She appears as a goddess and an angel surrounded by cherubim. It's a peerless example of form meeting content...
...chimps have been injected with a virulent "rage hormone." They bite some humans, who bite others, and so on and so on. Four weeks later, London is a wasteland, its streets denuded of people, except for a few uninfected survivors and many ravenous, fast-moving zombies. "Plans are pointless," says a stubborn survivor, Selena (Naomie Harris). "Stayin' alive is as good as it gets...
...Completely avoiding such autobio pitfalls as pointless anectdotalism, self-indulgence and sentimentality, "Summer Job" has a classic coming-of-age storyline. Paul arrives at the camp as a self-pitying, privileged child of the middle classes. Afraid of the woods and uncomfortable around children Paul seems a terrible candidate for the job. His partner, Annie, quickly becomes infuriated with him, screaming, "The minute I saw you ? with the new overalls and $200 boots?I new what to expect: a daddy's boy!" The key turning point arrives during a long sequence of Paul learning to climb the rock face...
...discrimination is pointless if it only applies to groups, like The Crimson or Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which have no reason to discriminate,” he added...
...pointless for American generals to bleat about Iraqi irregulars not wearing uniforms or hiding behind civilians; this is what guerrillas have always done. ("The guerrilla must move among the people as a fish swims in the sea," said Mao.) Our leaders in uniform would serve us better if they explained that, increasingly, guerrilla wars are the ones we will have to fight...