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...earliest experiments with it. Ware may be our most committed creator of comix as art. For one thing, he demands high production values for his books. The "Quimby" book must be the most gorgeous graphic novel ever published. It has gold ink embossed in the hardcover, with thick paper and an exquisite mix of color and black and white strips. The "Date Book" likewise has come out as a hardcover with top-notch production, including a placeholder ribbon. A tantalizing sketchbook page from 1995 contains a quote attributed to Goethe, "Architecture is frozen music." Ware adds an addendum, writing, "This...
Finally, Arnold, beware of the media. I know you think you have a thick skin, but take my word for it--the press is brutal. The stuff it comes up with is nothing like a bad review for a recently released film. Good luck...
...landed nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice...
...years by severe asthma, Nash died in 1946 of pneumonia, aged 57. The last painting in the show is Farewell (1944), a moment of calm after the bombing raids and the high summer heat. A dry branch writhes like a dead snake against shades of cool lettuce, but a thick wood still lurks darkly on the left. In Nash's world, Paradise is never entirely safe...
...There were several good vantage points for watching the final approach and turn onto Runway 13. Ironically the Spectators Terrace above the main terminal building was not one?its glass was thick and usually too dirty to see through. According to Armstrong, "a thrilling experience was standing in the street under the approach in and around Kowloon Tong. There was a shopping center there and the planes turned directly over you. It felt like you could touch them...