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They are, too. The second half of the film elevates all the story elements to Beethovenian crescendo. Here is an epic with literature's depth and opera's splendor--and one that could be achieved only in movies. What could be more terrific...
...Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner (Four Walls Eight Windows; 1994) A pioneer in the form of autobiographical comix, Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor" series recently became the basis for a hit independent film. This is his most serious and longest work, written in collaboration with his wife and drawn by Frank Stack, and is a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis...
...probably more irritating and monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling. But the real reason to take this measure is neither to generate less prosaic conversation topics nor to smoke pot amidst the splendor of natural sunlight. Our yearly hiatus from Daylight Saving Time has consequences far—ahem—darker than these...
...night of Liquor Treating and settling down for the campus-wide Halloween tradition of...listening to classical music? Yes, almost all of the freshman class and many upperclassmen have collected in a drunken haze, sporting everything from hooker getups to astronaut costumes to a nostalgic nod to the sartorial splendor of Sporty Spice. Perhaps predictably, the crowd includes way too many guys in drag...
...Splendor is not too strong a word for what Gehry has brought to downtown Los Angeles. But for a long time, trouble was an appropriate word too. "We went through hell," says Gehry, sitting amid the huge bustle of his office in a converted warehouse in Santa Monica. "But in the end, we made it work." That's putting it mildly on both counts. The Disney Hall may be one of the most anguished creative triumphs since the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But now that it's here, it can be counted on to reverberate not just through...