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...Alec: How to be an Artist," uses Campbell's long-time alter-ego, Alec MacGarry, to tell the story of his struggling years. Using this tether Campbell dives into and returns from extended caveats on subjects like the history of the industry during the '80s "boom-years," the difference between craft and art, and the challenges of remaining an Artist in such an historically disposable medium. Thus it bounces from essay, to history, to criticism, to autobiography in a way I haven't seen comix try before...
...luxury of such pranks. The world remembers Mir for its hair-raising string of crises in the late 1990s--culminating in a collision with an unmanned cargo ship in 1997--but there were other, less publicized near misses. Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov almost became a satellite himself when his safety tether came loose during a spacewalk. Luckily, he managed to grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive, the cosmonauts had to wave their hands in front of their...
...work we constantly do throughout our lives: the work of observing. Drama forces us to observe and in doing so it forces us to work. The make-believe of drama, like the make-believe of children, is both a type of freedom from the world and a tether that keeps us grounded on the earth. Theater may be a type of play, but its also one of the most fundamental types of work that we can know...
Before Cousteau, undersea exploration was limited by the length of a human breath or the tether on a diving helmet. His co-invention of the Aqua-Lung in 1943 freed us to roam the ocean depths--like an "archangel" flying through the heavens, as he put it. Maker of more than 150 films, beginning with his Oscar-winning The Silent World in 1956, Cousteau revealed a flotilla of wondrous creatures to an audience that was instantly entranced. In his last book, Man, Octopus and Orchid, published shortly after his death in 1997 at the age of 87, Cousteau summed...
...duty as an enigmatically watchful neighbor-lover-ally patiently to offer her that option, and he does it with his customary brooding grace. It's the duty of a lot of good character actors to keep driving her in the opposite direction, toward the end of her very taut tether. It is the very great pleasure of this movie (well written by Ann Biderman) that its truly haunting suspense derives not from Smilla's conflict with her external enemies but from her own demons...