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...while the single blue tone brings depth to the frames and gives them a cool atmosphere. The only point of comparison between the artists' styles is their use of layout. Both put readability as a priority, keeping the panel arrangements varied but never confusing, occasionally breaking out of the usual arrangements for heightened effects. But where Williams puts the layout at the service of visual excitement, as in his full-page "splash" of the Tree floating in a bubble in outer space, Huizenga's pop-out moments, like a full page "splash" of Glenn and his wife laying quietly...
Participants accumulated credits in exchange for a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or a Ph.D. in Charm. Unlike MIT’s usual selectivity, Charm School boasts an admission rate of 100 percent to interested participants with free tuition to boot...
...second as farce.” Yesterday it was the rise of the Likud, and today it is Hamas. The Palestinian people have never been more in need of moderate leadership than today and, yet, they chose extremists to lead their way. Some might argue that Palestinians had, as usual, chosen the wrong side at every turn in history; as Abba Ebban, former Israeli Foreign Minister, liked to describe Palestinians: “they never miss a chance to miss a chance.”I too am unhappy by the choice my people made; my fear is mostly centered...
...Faculty members were willing to talk openly about the upcoming dean search due to the early state of the process, but many did say that they expect the search to be more challenging than usual due to the current fractious state of Harvard governance...
...lead one. Weisz is smart, sexy, spiky in a movie where she'd dead in the first five minutes. Keener lends humanity to Capote, and is the earth mother (or big sister) of all indies. McDormand's role was obvious and shrill, but she tempered it with her usual intelligence. Williams plays arguably the one unequivocally sympathetic character in Brokeback, and does so with quiet yearning beauty. And Adams redefines "adorable" as the star-struck yokel in Junebug. I like all these actresses, and most of their roles, but I like most that Adams came from practically nowhere to beguile...