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...years. An older Joan (Sasha G. Weiss ’05) is making hats and playfully responding to the advances of her coworker Todd (Alan D. Zackheim ’06). The disturbingly blank-faced mannequins they use (Michael R. Von Korff ’07 and Katherine J. Thompson ’05) belie their innocent dialogue. Again, the simple contentment of the scene is shattered when we discover through their unconcerned dialogue that the hats are being used for the parade of battered, terrified prisoners whose bodies are burned...
...cold enough to shift to 12:30. Responses to the changes are mixed. “I don’t miss it at all” says Elena D. Bassett ’07 about the later time change. Susan “Scottie” S. Thompson, ’05, former publicity manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, agrees. “Do I miss freezing my hands off in the middle of winter? No,” she says, adding, “It’s kind of absurd when it?...
...from lesson to lesson or for kids who have hockey practice every afternoon, homework is just part of a high-pressure package. "If you're going to send kids to a highly academic school or enroll them in advanced classes, you have to make that the priority," advises Michael Thompson, author of The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life (Ballantine; 272 pages). "You can't pile on activities; the child will end up a stressed-out mess...
...margins the text reveals an undercurrent of loneliness and anxiety. Slowly you catch on that the tour comes on the heels of a major breakup and that someone, presumably his ex-lover, has become seriously ill back in the States. (The details stay frustratingly obtuse.) In spite of this Thompson continues on to Marrakech, alone. His three weeks in North Africa result in complex portraits of both the place and of Thompson's state of mind. His impressive drawings reveal the beauty of the architecture, the bustle of the marketplace, and even the animals that carve out a life...
...Alps the author luxuriates in the pleasures of skiing and food, filing the pages with rich detail like the one about raclette, a cheese you melt and pour over sliced potatoes and ham. Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona. This final leg includes encounters with a number of other cartoonists, like Louis Trondheim and Charles Burns, who contribute cameo sketches of their own. In spite of all this, Thompson continues to struggle with the alienation of travel. Then, at last...