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Others, however, had more mundane concerns in mind. "Get rid of the bunk beds," Tanya E. Kean '95 said. "I know I'm going to fall off in the middle of the night," she added. In a similar vein, Donald D. Lewis '95 said, "I tried to take a hot shower but there was no hot water. We need hot water...
...collection of pieces than a unified whole. At times he grows as shrill as those he skewers. Nonetheless, O'Rourke manages to ask all the explosive questions -- Why are taxes so high? Why doesn't government work? How did things get so bad? -- that tap into the deep vein of discontent running through America today. Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it is one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover...
...Ringel arrived in the U.S. in 1907, the best available job was shohet -- ritual slaughterer. But the immigrant was too sensitive for throat cutting, and he chose to become a peddler. Assimilation works wonders in America; 84 years later, his grandson has developed an unerring instinct for the jugular vein...
...this vein, I "compose" instead of "draw," since I combine words and images to make a unified work. But to make an emotional connection with readers, I try to hit their heads as well as their hearts...
...collage because it grew up spinning the TV dial. No such fragmentation of images was built into the culture of France or Germany in the 1920s. The relations between image and thing seemed solid. Here was something to overturn, and collage was the lever. Ernst fell on the common vein of reproductory images like a miner discovering a virgin reef...