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...culture detritus. He lives in filth but owns the complete Summer of '87 Happy Meal toy series. It's the only work by Ware to clearly condemn a character without offering any sort of forgiveness. This gives the Rusty Brown vignettes a certain savagery but with limited scope. The whole book, owing chiefly to its "gag" format, begins to feel like the same note being hit over and over. It lacks the rich development of the Jimmy Corrigan series. Still, Ware's single note resonates like a tuning fork for America. After putting down "Acme" 15 I opened a piece...
This momentum is now in danger. The United States was the first country to offer money for the Global Fund; although its initial pledge of $200 million was appropriately derided as insignificant given the scope of the crisis, it did help spark a round of contributions. More money was expected soon. Now, unless action is taken, it seems unlikely that Congress will even appropriate the $200 million it has already committed. Since Sept. 11. Congressional aides dealing with foreign affairs have been entirely focused on terrorist attacks, the rising tide of letters and phone calls from constituents concerned by AIDS...
...leave that to periodicals). Second, the events are so complex and interconnected that they beg to be considered in a variety of lights, which a lone book or two cannot encompass. People still want instant information, but the kind of information they seek has suddenly, dramatically increased in scope. The same person who buys a book of patriotic photographs might also be interested in a comprehensive analysis of bioterrorism...
With over 400 pages of text and another 100 of notes, The Death of Comedy is broad in scope but lovingly detailed. The writing, which does not assume prior knowledge of the subject, is as engaging as it is rich with allusion to sources as diverse as Freud, Wordsworth, the musical My Fair Lady and Roberto Benini’s acclaimed movie Life is Beautiful. Whether or not the reader ultimately agrees with Segal’s arguments, The Death of Comedy remains an enjoyable read, a sweeping tome which tackles the topic of comedy with much gusto...
...never intoned “Greed is good,” nor have they been so sanctimonious in their stewardship of national culture. Meanwhile the U.S. has bombed, sanctioned and bullied its way to worldwide scorn, and domestically has failed to attempt a social program of anywhere near the scope of Canada’s. When former President George Bush announced his goal of leading a “kinder, gentler nation,” his neighbors to the north wondered whether he was planning to invade...