Word: splendorful
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...There was a complete script for it. It was done in pretty much the same manner that can be seen in the American Splendor movie. I would take a piece of paper and divide it into six panels, write the dialogue and indicate with stick figures where the characters were supposed to be positioned. Then I went back and did the finished book...
BOOKS: Aloft is a flawless meditation on suburban splendor...
...landscaping contractor, thinks in better prose than most English professors write--come on, give Lee some room to play in, he'll make it up to you. The glossy flawlessness of Lee's prose is itself a metaphor, a symbol of the superficial perfection of America's suburban splendor. Even though you can barely see the fault lines and stress fractures just below the surface, somehow it makes you feel them that much more keenly...
...autobiographies as Joe Esterhaz's Hollywood kiss-and-tell, comix have long been a haven for the story of the little guy. The marginalized nature of the medium has meant that virtually anyone can afford to put out a comic about his or her life. Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," about the travails of a Cleveland file clerk, has become the best known ordinary-guy autobiography, but virtually every great cartoonist of the last twenty years has tried their hand at it. Two recent graphic novels are perfect examples of comix' ability to capture the drama of less public lives...
Leave it to Sofia Coppola to defy the fashion trends of the evening and still come out on top. Predictably wearing a Marc Jacobs gown (the two are nearly inseparable), the dramatic black silk dress flirted with feminine frills but boldly maintained the elegance of Oscar splendor. But the glory of Sofia lies in her nonchalant and sometimes downright bitchy persona—an elaborate hairstyle or gown would be utterly superfluous. Her look for the evening perfectly typified her class and sass...