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...write a "Nouvelle Manga Manifesto." In it he explains how Japan came to see the French style of comix, called bandes dessinees or "clear line," as too graphically focused, while the French saw Japanese Manga as little more than near-endless volumes about robots and monsters. In spite of this disconnect, Boilet writes, both cultures share a mutual fascination with slice of life stories, as evidenced by the popularity of French cinema in Japan. (The name nouvelle manga deliberately echoes nouvelle vague, the French name for the New Wave cinema of the 1960s.) "Nouvelle manga" refers to any comic that...
...what makes McDavitt’s milestone effort all the more impressive is that it happened a in spite of an ankle injury that she suffered in practice earlier in the week...
Needless to say, I changed my facebook political affiliation from moderate to conservative just to spite my Warren Court section...
...founding members of the band are probably behind John Kerry,” says Rand. “And we’re doing a little word play here, but what we call the Electral E-L-E-C-T-R-A-L College are overwhelmingly for Kerry, in spite of the fact that he’s a Yale graduate. But we don’t have much choice, do we? They’re all Yale graduates. Anyway that was a 10-to-3 vote...
...beauty of baseball players is that they immerse themselves in the game. And they seem oddly impervious to the knots that tie up fans. They dream of winning the World Series from their earliest days of Little League, and they drive toward that goal in spite of curses or anything else for that matter. For the Red Sox, that dream is now a reality. No more curses. No more close calls. No more 1918. No more ? For now, they can enjoy victory and sit on top of the world until next spring when the snow melts, the stadiums reopen...