Word: unexpectedness
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A brief history: Brown's first series, "Yummy Fur" appeared during a surge in the popularity of black and white, independent comix. Collected as the howlingly funny and surreal graphic novel "Ed the Happy Clown," those early issues were canonized as a highlight of 80s graphic literature. Then Brown did...
A Scene of Carnage Spain once suffered another terrible, unexpected and punitive attack [EUROPE, March 22]: the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German airplanes launched an all-out assault to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco break Basque resistance to his...
The movie then jumps forward seven years. Gertie has become an improbably articulate first grader living in New Jersey with her grandfather and dad, who works as a street cleaner and dreams of returning to his old job and the Manhattan good life. A visit to the local video store...
It is difficult to believe that this subdued sandy-colored man is one and the same with the wrestler The Rock, who once weekly exhorted audiences to “smell what The Rock is cookin’!” But he doesn’t mind that a...
For any future leader, Gray advises to “pursue one’s own path while being open to the unexpected new byways and challenges that emerge in the process.”