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...Wind in the Willows, Mr. Toad romances his gypsy cart until he is transformed by the sight of that splendid innovation, the motorcar. The gypsy cart is forgotten--is junk. We are all Toad. We need the sobering voice of Mr. Badger to talk us down from our manias...
...Quitter (DC/Vertigo; 104 pages; $20), a hardcover book illustrated by Dean Haspiel, represents Harvey Pekar's first major work of original material since the release of the film American Splendor, based on his comix series. As anyone who watched that splendid movie knows, Pekar led a fairly unremarkable life as a Cleveland file clerk until he decided to turn that very mundaneness into comic art. Hiring others to illustrate his non-fiction vignettes of such quotidian occurrences as starting a car in the winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly...
...most honorable citizen in Millbrook, Ind. He is Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), and he enjoys an idyllic life with his lovely, loving wife (Maria Bello) and their two kids. When Tom uses some surprisingly expert moves to defend his diner, he becomes a local hero. His sudden, splendid fame attracts the attention of some out-of-town gangsters (led by Ed Harris) who seem to have mistaken Tom for one Johnny Cusack, a hit man back in Philly...
...case, the charge of character assassination is preposterous. The Rising isn't particularly good, but Khan is splendid: by turns virile and pensive, he has created a thinking hero of a kind rarely seen in Indian movies. And that's riled up another set of the movie's critics?an iconoclastic group that delights in punching holes in the heroes that many Indians hold sacred. This lot, shooting off columns in magazines and papers, has suggested that Pandey wasn't fighting for India, which didn't even exist in 1857, but was just a village boy furious that he couldn...
...Hospitals could be redesigned to provide parking on the lower floors so that any future flooding would not reach the floors where patients and medical records would be kept. After the 1989 earthquake collapsed sections of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, the city demolished elevated segments and developed a splendid park and waterfront esplanade. "We didn't replan the city," says Mary Comerio, author of Disaster Hits Home, a study of six postdisaster reconstruction efforts. "But we took these terrific opportunities to remake pieces...