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...lovers, invest your money in the Little Nemo book; in The Spirit Archives; in the spectacular enlarged reproduction of Mad comics that Russ Cochran produced in the 80s, or the MAC OS X compilation of all Mad magazines. Sit at your computer, snuggle up in bed or sprawl on the floor with the book open before you. Be a kid again, discovering the low thrills and high art of old Comics Books. You don't need a museum to tell you that this stuff is great...
...Roses by nearly seven lengths, the longest Derby victory margin in 60 years. I had witnessed every Derby but one since 1972, and Barbaro struck me--for his sheer athleticism, his explosive speed, his unbridled joy for running--as the finest 3-year-old I had seen since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Vast ability aside, he had all the extras: a classic pedigree, a gentlemanly demeanor and a body that could be by da Vinci. Two weeks later, he shattered his right hind leg in the Preakness. Barbaro may have hobbled off the racetrack with his promise unfulfilled...
Ogunwole boasts an 81-25 record over his collegiate tenure, and was 11-0 this season until Saturday. He has also had spectacular form in the postseason. In his freshman year, Ogunwole finished in third place at the EIWA Championships and made the quarterfinals at the NCAA’s. As a sophomore he earned another NCAA appearance while being selected to the All-Ivy second team...
...Wear (Abbeville; 320 pages; $95) by Julie Schafler Dale is a stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book...
...week both to goad mighty General Motors into an expensive estrangement and get his name involved in Washington's Iran-contra scandal, has been variously called a dictator, a superpatriot and an inspiring, unassuming employer-philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series (NBC's May On Wings of Eagles). Says a close Perot friend, Dallas Oilman Tom Meurer: "Ross likes to carry banners where nobody else will." Agrees Perot's sister...