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...freaks among us who just wanna be loved: three months ago, in a fiction seminar, a girl passed the following note to a boy: “Want to have a 24-hour affair?” They are still happily dating nearly three thousand hours later...The tone was perhaps slightly less romantic at the Harvard Ski Club’s Ski Trip, where one freshman opportunist happily jumped between the beds of three junior ladies—nothing keeps the cold out better than young blood...Except for porn, apparently, as the guy at Noch?...
...want?'' ''We are the Proletarian Revolutionaries.'' ''I never heard of such a title,'' I said. ''You are going to hear a lot about us. We are the Revolutionaries who represent the working class, which is the ruling class in China.'' The man with the tinted spectacles assumed a severe tone of voice. ''Where have you hidden your gold and weapons?'' ''What gold and weapons?'' ''You know what gold and weapons!'' ''I have no gold or weapons. The Red Guards have been here. They did not find any gold or weapons.'' ''You hid them. Our Great Leader told us that...
...Dreaming up and writing Mad at EC Comics, Kurtzman virtually invented what would become the era's dominant tone of irreverent self-reference: one form of pop culture mocking all other forms, and itself. Kurtzman inspired several of the artists in this show, including Crumb, whose exemplarily twisted panels first appeared in Kurtzman's post-Mad magazine Help!, and Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus in 1986 spurred a lot of high-minded people toward a belated appreciation of the form. (A comic book about the Holocaust - that must somehow be important...
...peruse the strip in sequence - as you can in the handsome collection called The Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school...
...opportunity to peel Damascus away from its alliance with Iran. And Rice's relationship with Abbas, in particular, is frosty. A senior Palestine Liberation Organization official who has sat in on meetings between the two says, "She acts like a school headmistress, telling her student in a commanding tone to do this or don't do that...