Word: smartest
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...Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon: 2000) The most perfect novel yet seen in this format, Ware innovates in form and in content to create a uniquely American story, both tragic and gut-splittingly funny. Neither smart nor a kid, Jimmy reunites with his long-lost dad, finds him a great disappointment, and discovers an African-American sister he never knew about...
...shown; even some beloved characters are not spared. When Maturin and Aubrey have to make tough decisions, you feel their pain and the confusion, pain and anger of their crewmen. Between Master and Commander, The Truman Show and Witness, Peter Weir has proven himself to be one of the smartest populist directors working today...
...could ask the smartest person alive one question, what would it be? While we probably won’t be faced with that prospect anytime soon, Mary N. Naam ’05—one of the contestants slated to compete in Jeopardy’s College Championships—is in a unique position to do so. Some might expect her to hit Trebek with questions such as “Who is Antigone?” or “What is the Maginot Line?” (as she should, given that money and a Volvo...
...experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead, the half-Vietnamese, half-Indian French citizen slipped out the back with his Canadian girlfriend Marie LeClerc. They'd already crossed the border into India by the time the police...
...Chris Ware lives in the past is like saying the Queen of England lives in a house. Ware turns the past into a palace. In 2000's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware ransacks the history of cartooning, borrowing from 19th century lithography, superhero comics and Sunday funnies to create a visual language in which panels twist across the page like a drunken conga line...