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...first visited Paris, as a teenager in 1927, she was heartsick that no hamburgers were available. Those inconsiderate French, she thought - they served their own food, not ours. Today, much to the chagrin of the protectors of French cuisine, there are McDonald's franchises everywhere, but my mother's spirit seems to have been channeled into some of the American journalists writing blogs at Cannes. They may think they're Henry James, writing with knowing eloquence of European mores, but they're in danger of sounding like Daisy Miller, James' most famous American innocent abroad, finding fault with everything that...
...pages; $20) arrives in bookstores early next week, just a few months after he died at age 87. A key figure in the development of graphic literature, Eisner worked in "the biz" for over 60 years. He set new standards for the form's possibilities with his cinematic weekly Spirit series during the 1940s, and then again in the late twentieth century, with his tireless boosterism for long-form "graphic novels." His final book combines literary biography and criticism into an activist work striking a blow against anti-Semitism. Though not without flaws, The Plot carries through Eisner's ambitious...
...lesson in how and how not to make comix. Eisner's early drawings practically defined expressiveness in cartooning. The Spirit introduced the aesthetics of what would eventually be called film noir into the comics of the 1940s. But later, Eisner's work became almost too expressive. While masterfully drafted, there is a whiff of mothballs in the way Eisner's characters mug their emotions, evoking a time of pre-Method overacting. They don't just give conspiratorial looks, they leer with venality. They don't just argue with conviction, they gesticulate wildly. Again, Eisner clearly doesn?t think an audience...
There is a great spirit of camaraderie that comes from group nudity—it is not sexual, but utterly human. In those moments, as male and female genitalia are not only displayed, but frequently brushed up against in the frenzy of the crowd, we are not disgusted—nay, we are invigorated. We slap five to the clothed onlookers, proud to be participating in this great communal activity, where we are the focal point, not as individuals, but as a blur of heroes...
...sausage-fest. I also appreciate that for some women in particular, running naked is not the most pleasant experience, yet sure enough, even some of the more endowed female students on campus brave the pain to become part of the group, every bounce a testament to their school spirit...