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Back in 1991, before Marvel comics completely tanked creatively and financially, they gave Walt Simonson writing and penciling duties on "The Fantastic Four," issues #350, 352, 353, and 354. (Number 351 was a throwaway, "filler" issue.) I doubt the title has seen such a highlight since then. These four issues are some of the best mainstream comic entertainment I have read. And issue 352 stands alone as a pinnacle not just of the series, but the art form...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...
...however, we pivoted around to the horizontal. Culture, instead of being passed down vertically through time, began to move along instead on a vast frothing horizontal, across the generation - a great wave advancing on a broad front and transmitting a popular culture about 15 minutes deep: a shallow, throwaway, universal culture in the form of globally shared television shows, movies, music, drugs and other sensations of interchangeable news and entertainment...
...There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far-out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling - the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly - has led to cries that the FAA must...
There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling--the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly--has led to cries that the FAA must...