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...some have been describing Strange Little Girls as an album about the portrayal of women in pop music, and there may well be truth to that interpretation, but it is not nearly as simple or polemical as that. Tori has relegated her band to the background after their triumphant arrival on her 1999 release To Venus and Back. On Girls, she picks her way through a wash of reverberating keyboards, as on the Velvet Underground quiet-revolution opener “New Age,” and even some solo piano work that recalls her early albums...
Critics Picks There are two must-haves this fall, both from Fantagraphics, both from two of America's top artists, neither of whom has published new material in a year and a half. "Acme Novelty Library" #15 (September) will be Chris Ware's return to the form since the triumphant hardcover collection, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth." Lauded even by the mainstream press for his intricate design and sardonic wit, this new issue will be over-sized and full of "gag" pages, rather than part of a continuing story...
...says that these girls are confronted with a troublesome stereotype, that of the passive, docile, exotic, quiet Asian woman. Says Nam, "There is no single, prescribed way of growing up Asian and female. Our stories reveal disparate family and cultural histories, class struggles, and ethnic-specific issues." She is triumphant, after several years of work on the book, to have her vision realized. "This reminds girls that they're not alone...
...them using their tiny, humanish hands to unscrew the top from a jar of Skippy 25% reduced fat chunky peanut butter. Two nights later, amazingly, they succeeded, and rewarded themselves with a mouse feast that left the peanut butter half gone and, all around the jar, a triumphant scattering of scats, which look like chocolate sprinkles...
...death. Now, they want a bit of credit both for the astonishing riches their hard work has produced and for their country's reemergence as a world power. Playing Olympic host, along with China's expected acceptance into the World Trade Organization, are two markers of the country's triumphant arrival. If some of that credit rebounds to a Communist Party that is deeply corrupt and unwilling to allow even the trappings of democracy, so it goes. "Chinese people might dislike their government," says author Wang Xiaodong, "but when they consider China's place in the world, their interests...