Word: snake
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...hair of grandilomentitudinous proportions has lifted his dukes against a force of monumentatious sportumental influence. Translation: DON KING filed a $2.5 billion defamation suit against ESPN last week. "I seek justice," said King, disputing ESPN's SportsCentury profile of him, aired last May, which called the boxing promoter a "snake-oil salesman" and "shameless huckster." The program claimed-- falsely, King says in his suit--that he shortchanged Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes as well as a hospital owed funds from a boxing charity benefit, and threatened to kill two people. An ESPN spokesman defended SportsCentury as a Peabody and Emmy...
...week experience. "I really wanted to work out the drawings. How can I draw and epileptic attack, for example. Is it possible to draw that with a pencil and a piece of paper?" His solution to that particular challenge is to depict his brother in coils of a fantastical snake, twisting him in knots. Beauchard's cartoon world is inhabited as much by monsters, phantoms and animated objects as by "real" characters. He manages to combine into most every page both objective reconstructions of events as well as the subjective imaginings of the characters into one seamless, readable whole...
...Maus.Set in Europe during the late 1960s and early '70s, Epileptic tells the story of David B.'s family members as they struggle to help his brother, trying out "cures" from mediums to exorcisms. A seizure is depicted as his brother twisting in the coils of a giant snake. David B. says, "I didn't want at all to do something realistic. I was not interested in making a reconstruction." By taking us to the most fantastic limits of his imagination, David B. has made his family's struggles palpably, powerfully real. --By Andrew Arnold
Some more fine music down at the Middle East club. Performers include MewithoutYou (Tooth and Nail Rec.), Owen (Mike Kinsella from Cap ‘n’ Jazz, Joan of Arc) and The Snake The Cross The Crown. This promises to be a great evening of contemporary and inventive rock. 1 p.m. All ages. $8 in advance, $10 at the door...
...families are dysfunctional. But when your first foster parent tries to kill you, your second foster parent is an overzealous snake researcher, and your third foster parent is a hypochondriac, dysfunction suddenly takes on a whole new meaning...