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...days of mere groveling seem to be over. For the past three weeks, crowds of disgruntled workers swelling up to 30,000 have gathered outside City Hall, demanding jobs and pensions, carrying posters of Chairman Mao, China's patron saint of workers, and banners reading "The government has humiliated the people!" In the nearby province of Heilongjiang, simultaneous and similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising...
...scream in recriminating rage. We need to be our own press agents. And if we aren't quite up for or down to the job, then let's hire a publicist to do it for us. There's a good indie outfit in midtown Manhattan, named for the patron saint of New York nightcrawlers. So help me, it's called Falco...
...amount of freedom of form. So here they are, printed in chronological order with their date of publication. The collection's designer, Chris Ware (of "Jimmy Corrigan" fame), wisely makes his hand all but invisible. The strips are just black and white because William Randolph Hearst, syndicator and patron saint of the strip, ran it in the arts section of his papers rather than the color "funnies." Disappointingly Hearst also forced the strip into a strict layout beginning in the summer of '25, stifling Herriman's innovative page design...
...artists, Gaudí began with more detractors than fans. One critic in the early 1950s described his famous façades as "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year. More than...
...more despotic and rude - his irritability perhaps exacerbated by his contraction of the livestock disease brucellosis. The Catholic Church, however, has few doubts about the man. A movement within it wants the Pope to canonize him, and the Archbishop of Barcelona has called for him to be named patron saint of architecture. Many Catalans draw the line at sainthood, arguing that Gaudí's legacy of buildings is, as Daniel Giralt-Miracle puts it, "glory enough...