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Without such complications, the operation was straightforward. "We were at fairly close quarters, trying not to disturb the pencil and aggravate the injury," says Williams. But there was no infection, no contamination from pencil lead--and no permanent damage. Indeed, by last Saturday, less than three weeks after his open-heart surgery, Nathan was itching to get out of the house. "I want to go back to school," he told TIME. And parents who used to warn kids of the dangers posed to eyes by various sharp objects now have, for the foreseeable future, a new and even more frightening...
...plan works, it won't be the first time Lee has remade his trade. Before Lee, being a superhero was pretty straightforward: good was good, evil was evil, and neither was very self-aware. But Lee conceptualized characters, like the Hulk and the Thing, who were literally uncomfortable in their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time...
During his years of political exile, Hart developed a radical if unoriginal critique of American democracy, an ideal irredeemably corrupted by money, cynicism and campaign trickery. Here, his fictional hero is his mouthpiece. Hart could have eliminated the middleman--Che, in this case--and written a straightforward tract on his theory of radical democracy. Sure enough: "That's my next book," he says. But without a thriller wrapped around them--and without John Blackthorn--his ideas may be a tougher sell...
...With 1988's "The Thin Blue Line," Errol Morris took his compositional approach to documentary filmmaking further than he had with his two earlier works, "Gates of Heaven" and "Vernon, Florida." Instead of a misleadingly straightforward, observational style, this film includes entire scenes shot as reenactments. "I've been accused of creating reenactment television," Morris says, "but the reenactments in The Thin Blue Line are all ironic, they never purport to show you what happened. When I see reenactment television the conceit is that they're actually showing you what happened, whereas in my film, it's exactly the opposite...
...June 1992, when I was still a candidate for the presidency and he was fairly new in his own job. Since then, in the 19 times we've met, I have often heard him speak, with unmistakable and sometimes pugnacious pride, about his greatest achievements and, with equally straightforward candor, about where he still had work to do to build a genuinely democratic, prosperous and modern Russia, pursuing its national interests while cooperating with other great nations and international institutions...