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...called "Mighty Marvel Manner," a combination of idiot-level exposition, purple prose, absurdly contrived fight scenes and melodramatic pathos, can be done right or wrong. Mostly it gets done wrong. But when done right, as by its founders Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and here by Simonson, it can be a delight and impossible to put down. On the first page of this four-issue series Dr. Doom hovers over a storm-swept castle as his doom-bots, "the banshees of hate," come, "skirling down through the sleet... carried on the wings of the whistling wind!" I challenge...
About twenty students entered the contest with speeches ranging from Cato to Medieval Latin to Elizabethan drama to twentieth century English poetry and prose. Approximately half a dozen entries were in Latin, according to Engell. "There was quite a wide variety in all," Engell says...
Asgedom's simple prose captures the spirit of the American dream as exemplified by him and his family. The book is punctuated with bits of advice from Asgedom's parents that are the governing principles by which he lives, providing a wonderful frame of reference in which to see his actions. And although his story deals primarily with his struggles to over obstacles such as the English language and malicious classmates, Asgedom manages to slip in some entertaining sketches of his young life, such as a Halloween mischief and the theft of a parking meter...
...DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, author and widow of high-flying pioneer Charles Lindbergh; in Passumpsic, Vermont. Five volumes of best-selling diaries and 21 books of prose and poetry won Morrow Lindbergh fame in her own right, but her marriage to the man who completed the first transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before...
Lowy has chosen broad targets to hurl pies at, and he splatters them. He's messy sometimes, and his words and thoughts go everywhere--stylish, original prose this isn't--but it's a good mess, mostly. And a weird...