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...After giving up the baby for adoption and getting a quickie marriage to get herself out of New York, Kominsky Crumb winds up in San Francisco where she discovers the circle of early women comix artists who would establish "Wimmin's Comix," the pioneering feminist underground comic book. While acknowledging the importance of her meeting this group, her characterization of the core contributors ("a backbiting, nasty group of women") typifies the author's blunt and often surprising revelations in this book...
They oversaw the renovation of the Currier “Fishbowl”—now a luxurious lounge replete with a big screen TV and audiovisual sound system—and the opening of a new reading room. They were a frequent sight in the underground dining hall, and the victorious hosts of a champagne party last year when Currier won the Strauss cup, which is awarded each spring to the house that has garnered the most points in intramural competitions throughout the year...
...staff in Rhythmics, a DVD shop in an incense-filled underground market below Delhi's Connaught Place, were puzzled by my questions. The salesman scanned the walls of DVDs and then turned to me with a forlorn look on his face. "Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan fighting? No, we don't have that movie available. What's it called?" Next door, in a shop stacked high with the very latest movies, manager Kuldeep Singh dismissed the feud as "just newspaper attitude." "They make it up to sell more," he said with smile. "How can there be a fight when...
Since then, the notoriously secretive North Korean government has become increasingly impervious to American diplomatic pressure. With its recent underground nuclear test, Kim Jong Il’s regime has effectively taken the possibility of most sorts of military action from the U.S. off the table, and has rendered even diplomatic alternatives more complicated...
Flames between some lovers were prematurely quenched yesterday as firefighters extinguished an underground blaze that forced the evacuation of several restaurants and businesses on Brattle Street...