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...motifs dominate the sophisticated but always readable layouts. The first, naturally, is that of the towers, or more specifically the orange skeleton of the north tower, seen by Spiegelman just seconds before its collapse. The image appears in every episode of "No Towers," but noticeably smaller each time. This ultra-modern, terrifying vision finds its counterpoint in the nostalgia and comfort of the series' other major motif: old newspaper comics. Explaining that these "unpretentious ephemera from the optimistic dawn of the 20th century" were "the only cultural artifacts that could get past my defenses," Spiegelman works them into the strips...
...learns how to eat boiled beetles, polish ancestral bones during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. After watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers?until Martin, then 9, stuns...
...boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with...
...context.” Watch TV news, and you may begin to feel like the whole election is out of context, and it’s going to be up to the voter to put it all together. The very structure of television media minimizes context, since only the skeleton of a story can survive the cutting that it takes to reduce a complex issue into a two minute “package” or, worse, a 15-second “tell...
...would count towards the still-undetermined requirements for VES’ film studies concentrators. In addition to adding some number of new film studies courses to VES’ offerings, faculty say, the major task of the new concentration option will be setting up these requirements, giving a bureaucratic skeleton to the decentralized array of courses in film studies at Harvard, which they say has grown sharply in recent years...