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Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly; 2002) Tomine is comix's tartest short story writer, exploring the bleak lives of aging West Coast Gen-Xers. Newly reprinted in paperback, this collection of his work includes a story of a woman who makes desperate prank phone calls to the booth outside her window and another about a sad obsession over a blonde shop girl. Full Review
...reflections of their brilliantly duplicitous writer-director. And though his voice was caustically distinct, Wilder triumphed in a wide variety of genres. He made the sauciest farce (Some Like It Hot), the darkest film noir (Double Indemnity), the dearest romantic comedy (Sabrina) in Hollywood history--as well as the tartest evocation of Hollywood history (Sunset Blvd.). His films were utterly contemporary (One Two Three, his 1961 cold war satire, was shot in Berlin just before the Wall went up), yet have stayed as fresh and winning as an Audrey Hepburn smile...
This is the considered opinion of white-thatched Joel Hildebrand, 75, of the University of California. Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program...
...competitive temper under the taunts and slurs of his opponents and even some of his teammates. It was the only compromise he ever made on the ball field. And once he had won his particular Gettysburg, he took the snaffle off to become one of the game's tartest-tongued, terriblest-tempered performers...
Wasn't there any limitation at all to a President's action during an emergency? asked one newsman. Well, answered Truman, everyone had better read his history and find out. There were lots of Presidents who could be mentioned. Pressed to name some, the President adopted his tartest professorial tones. Well, he said, there was a gentleman by the name of Jefferson who paid $15 million for the greatest addition to this country that has ever been made. They tried to impeach him for that, said Harry Truman, if he remembered correctly. Then there was a gentleman...