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...more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch in horror as they forget to set the parking brake and their truck barrels downhill without them. All the while, with smart storytelling skill Derf moves "Trashed" beyond the merely repulsive. Unlike so many anecdotal autobio comix it has a narrative arc. After a full year of sanitation service Derf and his pal realize that school wasn't so bad after all. "Trash, I hate to admit, made...
...Derf's skill as cartoonist and storyteller make "Trashed" and "My Friend Dahmer" two of the most entertaining autobiographical comix I have ever read. By far the more enjoyable read, "Trashed" rivals Charles Bukowski's novel, "Factotum" for minimum-wage comedy. "Dahmer," on the other hand, has its own sort of disgusting verisimilitude. It turns out that Jeffrey Dahmer once got paid to "act" spastic in a middle-American shopping mall, and did it for two hours to the utter obliviousness of the authorities. You couldn't make this stuff...
...captain of Viewpoint High’s soccer team in addition to being a two-time captain of the baseball team. A few seniors on the Harvard team have taken to calling him “Country Club,” a play on his affinity for and skill at golf and racquet sports. Walsh attributes the sobriquet to Chaney’s overall athleticism, but Sheffield has another explanation...
Summers’ instrumental role in recruiting Lagemann demonstrates well his skill in drawing the best administrative candidates to Harvard. Lagemann describes Summers’ aggressive pitch as central to her acceptance, saying, “Summers first argued me into thinking about becoming dean, and then bowled me over with his ideas for the school and his unprecedented promises to help.” It is, of course, crucial that Summers continue his personal role in attracting the best people to top posts...
...argument he was trying to make to the HCC. In the course of rejecting Parks’ claims against OutKast, the judgement heavily endorses the First Amendment right to free expression stating, “It is fundamental that courts may not muffle expression by passing judgement on its skill or clumsiness, its sensitivity or coarseness, nor whether it pains or pleases.” The same claim can, and should, be made about the University’s response to expression, be that expression musical...