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...harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...test, the savvy marshals were working the room, or rather, the yard. But they didn’t stop with freshman week. As Monique says, “this meeting and greeting session lasted for the better part of the year.” It helps to have a semi-notorious entryway too. Pat proudly recalls that “the fifth-floor Thayer boys” were so social he says his assistant dean of freshmen labeled the posse “the worst corner of Harvard freshmen in Harvard history,” while Krish describes his Greenough...
Mikkelsen describes the Faroe Islands as a “small, provincial” place where everyone knows each other. His acceptance to Harvard vaulted him to semi-celebrity status there, and not only did he make the front pages of the two national newspapers, he also landed a contract with one to write periodic essays. The fame also served him well with the ladies in Faroese nightclubs. “Expectations for my performance in life rose exponentially” he says of life post-Harvard acceptance...
...between the cheerful opening and the abrupt change of mood in the second stanza. Each utterance of “Mein Herz” (“My Heart”) encompassed the emotional spectrum, from optimism to anguish. At his finest moments, he was able to take a semi-strophic song, like the opening “Gute Nacht” (“Good Night”), and turn it into a compelling narrative, making the music speak differently each time it reappeared. There was a richness to his vocal part that one doesn’t often...
Vellucci held a special animus for the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...