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With the council’s reputation as a hotbed of political machinations, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the only ticket with a straightforward, consistent platform is the comparative outsiders, Grimeland and Hadfield. This refreshing lack of entrenchment almost outweighs their disconcerting dearth of council know-how—if only their proposals were bound by the limits of pragmatic reason...
...whole, according to Beth S. Brainard, HCL’s director of communications. Cheng was aware of the need for such a collection in Chinese institutions, according to Brainard, and the decision to donate the books to a university in China “just seemed like a very straightforward development along the lines of the ties of friendship that we’ve had for generations,” Cole said. “In the light of Harvard’s commitment to engage more broadly in international scholarship, to increase the opportunities for our students to study...
...While the early stories tend to be reminiscences told in a straightforward style that offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall perspective, Tyler's work really blossoms, so to speak, in the final third of the book. Created mostly after her child-rearing duties wound down, the colors explode and the work becomes more poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each...
...shot, they play, they do a couch-interview segment in which they present O’Brian with a large cardboard version of his head, and they go home and watch themselves on TV, where he visits them (maybe this part isn’t so realistic). This relatively straightforward sequence is literally warped: the video plays with proportion and scale, stretching the Stripes vertically and horizontally, and using tricks of perspective to make them alternately tower over each other, not to mention the occasional use of midgets to portray O’Brian and passers-by on the street...
...Tuesday Magazine’s second issue. A painting of a boy-child and his teddy bear on the cover, some symbolism re: blue skies and opportunities... generally good vibes, nothing too weird or esoteric on the inside. Tuesday doesn’t mess around, keeping it clear and straightforward, appealing but not too outlandish...