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Paris was not made for this kind of suffering. When it came, the heat choked this city like a wool scarf pulled tight over its pretty mouth. Starting on Aug. 4, the temperature, normally around 75ºF this time of year, began hitting 104º. Paris, disdainful of air conditioning and never really comfortable with ice cubes, became a burned-out paradise, full of confused people roaming wide boulevards in search...
...habits of much of British journalism. "Parts of our media see it as their job to undermine politicians and the democratic process," Campbell told Time last week. "They seem to think we [in government] get up in the morning thinking, 'How can we destroy the country and pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became...
...Ralph Lauren--next to a ridiculous little sportcoat cut from pink-green-and-blue madras plaid--that I spotted the Holy Grail: a perfect navy blue blazer in a smooth flannel wool. It was $240. I knew I would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills...
While they were not close in college, the pair—which Verba describes as a “knee-jerk liberal†and a “dyed-in-the-wool conservativeâ€â€”now jokingly needle each other about their political differences...
...strives for historical accuracy in every way except the characters, who are deliberately cartoonish - sometimes absurdly so. Canada's Prime Minister, Sir. John McDonald has a comically gigantic gibbous nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines right down to the circles for eyes, Brown has updated Gray's technique to tell a true adventure...