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...Soldier Field - I've never been as ardent a fan of Peyton Manning's crew as my younger brother is (or my son, whom I've gladly let my Hoosier relatives turn into a Colts enthusiast). But today I can't help feeling that the balance of urban cachet back home along I-65 has changed to a certain, positive extent. Indianapolis may never be Chicago, but it's certainly no longer the underachieving city I once left for Chicago, as its surprisingly vibrant downtown shows today. Indianapolis is, in fact, a showcase of its own - one that displays...
...princess daughter are most obliging, and where Nemo befriends the sassy Flip and a gibberish-speaking cannibal, the Imp. Often, though, the magic turned to menace, as when a tuba's tubing grows longer and more serpentine with every note puffed on it; or when Nemo, now in an urban setting, is pursued by apartment building on long metallic legs; or when he, Flip and Imp get lost in overgrown weeds - the eyebrow of Nemo's grandfather. In a strip that ran on New Year's Eve, 1905, Father Time leads Nemo through a celestial hall of file cabinets. When...
...hero was another strong man with a secret identity: in this case, Denny Colt, a detective who was believed killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his protagonist a bit more like them; only reluctantly did he slap a mask on the Spirit to establish his kinship to the superheroes. New York (Metropolis, Gotham) was here called Central City, though later the Spirit traveled abroad. Sometimes he nearly disappeared from his own strip, making only a perfunctory appearance...
...kinds of diet solutions we search for. During the first weeks of the year, diet searches outnumber their closest self-improvement counterpart, "exercise," by 250%. And the list of most popular dieting queries are riddled with quick fixes such as "diet pills" and "the sacred heart diet," an urban-legend diet promising a 10-pound weight loss in seven days. This year even saw the shortest diet query in search engine history, the "three-hour diet." A look at the top ten searches containing the term "diet" for the first week of 2007 proves long-term solutions aren...
...done: create their own worlds and mesmerize viewers into them. Simon evokes a world very much like the viewers' own and entices them into confronting their own feelings. Broadway Bound is the work of a master craftsman, at once literary and heartfelt, shaped with becoming modesty. It is unmistakably urban and Jewish American in its rhythms, its idiom, its fabric of detail. In Simon's first two decades as a playwright, that ethnic quality frequently encumbered his attempts to evoke a more general view of the human condition. This time he fully succeeds. In a decade already much enriched...