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...Pekar grew up as the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants in Cleveland during the 1940s and 50s. As a result, much of The Quitter involves the classic American literary theme of assimilation. Though extremely popular in other mediums, this theme, again, has gotten little attention in comix except obliquely, through such genre works as Seigel and Shuster's Superman character. Thanks to Pekar's obsessive self-examination and what he calls his "trick" memory of near perfect recall, The Quitter takes its place as a top example of the New World Experience in graphic literature (see also the outstanding Four...
From that moment in eighth grade when Johnny Nitro first pranced across my television screen, I knew I had begun a life-long obsession with something truly stupid. Any entertainment where dry ice and theme music are essential to plot development is not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company. But still, I must confess: I love professional wrestling. To this day, I maintain a crush on The Raven, a scrawny little Gothic dude who always won the “Cage Matches” by beating his opponents over the head with metal folding chairs...
That's a recurring theme. U.S. officials say Taliban units are led by a few wizened commanders, such as Hannan, who operate in the mountains they know well enough to walk blindfolded. The commanders, the U.S. says, maintain a nucleus of 10 veteran fighters and bombmaking experts plus dozens of fresh recruits, usually teenagers from local villages and radical madrasahs, or seminaries, in nearby Pakistan. The commanders' effectiveness determines how much money and how many guns and new jihadis are doled out to them by the Taliban's secretive, 10-man military council, whose members move back and forth across...
...looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it?is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an 'orchestra' for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows ... Composer John Eaton says of Moog: 'He has brought electronic music out of the lab and into our lives.' The basic elements of Moog's machine are amplifiers, mixers, filters and voltage-controlled oscillators ... Because its voltage controls can precisely 'shape...
...direction Cronenberg ultimately chose illuminates his own contradictions as much as America’s. All his movies are trapped between the violence of the images and the characters and the intellectual discussion of his chosen theme. His 1996 film “Crash,” for example, about strangers coming together over a car crash fetish is violent and sordid, but also an earnest examination of the place machines hold in our lives...