Word: sakes
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...Bloomer (Fantagraphics Books; 136 pages; $29). Unlike the typical "inspirational" prose book (e.g., the Chicken Soup series), which proffers advice on how to overcome life's challenges, Tyler's book goes one better. Late Bloomer leads by example. Like many women, Tyler put off her personal ambitions for the sake of child rearing. But now, after more than a decade of relative creative fallowness, she returns with Late Bloomer, which not only explores such hard choices with honesty and humor, but its very publication represents the triumph of desire over deferral...
...most impressive aspects of Carol Tyler's art. Just the beginning of "a very long story," it details the origins of Tyler's feeling that "everything in my life existed around the edges." It dives headlong into her anger about giving up her own ambitions for the sake of raising a child while floundering in an apparently loveless marriage to the neurotic comix-maker Justin Green (who is also famed for his brutal auto-bio works). One memorable sequence, colored in bronze and blood-red, depicts the nursing author in her worst moment, as she imagines herself reduced...
...election, and all of them are clearly serious about their campaigns. Worries about abuse of the $400 reimbursement policy were unfounded. The UC is indeed investing $1200 of students’ money in these three tickets, but we feel that this is a small price to pay for the sake of good leadership in the year ahead. In short, the recent expansion of funding for candidates will help make the process of selecting a new UC president and vice-president fairer by ensuring that all the candidates start on a level playing field. While we endorse this measure, we also...
...subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced to improvise. Tutus are substituted for missing armor, a giant pretzel replaces a dragon...
...tradition in itself. But such an inert approach to university life would render our school incapable of progress and sentence future generations of Harvard students to stale experiences as members of the College. If we want to improve the quality of life at this institution for the sake of those who will follow, it is our duty to promote camaraderie among the students. Remember that the students of 1875 were bucking almost 250 years of “tradition” when they chose to establish a school color. Now crimson is certainly a majestic color...