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...Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything remotely resembling literary quality, Moore's book delivers on both counts...
...would think that as sellers of small pleasures, Coke and Pepsi would be poised to ride out this rough economy on similar waves. But Coke has turned in strong earnings lately while Pepsi has lagged. The divergence in performance stems less from an evolution of American tastes than from a gradual parting of strategic paths. The cola twins differ more and more in their nonbubbly portfolios...
Absolutely. If you've seen the trailer, there are a couple of images in there that are exactly the composition I drew on the page. And to actually see the movie-and I've seen a rough cut- is bizarre, because it's like seeing the movie that I was running in my head...
...movie that isn't in the comic book, and Zack wanted me to visualize it and draw it as if it were in the comic, and I did, and I got John Higgins to color it. So it' s like lost Watchmen pages! When we saw the rough screening of it in August this year they were almost begging me, the producers: please tell us if there's anything wrong, if there's anything you don't like, please, even if you think we've already filmed it, we can still change...
...Missing is the sense of reckless misadventure that had even a purportedly over-the-hill Keith brawling in bars and taking on two girls at once, ensuring listeners he hadn’t lost a step even when he said he had. In place of the old, rough-edged attitude is a set of wistful regrets—mostly about relationships gone bad. Keith finds a striking number of ways to summon sorrows about women: in “Missing Me Some You,” it’s the pains of separation; in “She Never...