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...experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained by the fact that they are cheap to produce and will fill...
...four victories later, Harvard stands atop the Rolfe Division with a perfect Ivy League record...
Bringing down the Big Red (6-1, 2-0) won’t be easy. Undefeated in Ivy League competition, Cornell is riding upon a six-game winning streak and looking to maintain its position atop the Ivy standings. A quick-start team, the Big Red has outscored its opponents 30-14 in the first half of games this season, looking to freshman Sean Greenhalgh and sophomore Andrew Collins—who leads the league in scoring—for early goals...
...yelling at the talking heads who won't shut up about white-haired golden boy Bob Baffert and his giant stallion Point Given. By the time Jorge Chavez, the 4-ft. 10-in. jockey who clawed his way up from the slums of Lima, Peru, to a seat atop Monarchos, hits the homestretch, you are rooting...
...pure, direct pleasure. The characters live in a fantastical desert landscape made of potted Joshua trees, adobe jails and giant disembodied elephant's feet. As Krazy argues with Ignatz over whether summer comes before winter the background magically changes from panel to panel - Ignatz on a road; Ignatz atop a mesa; Ignatz in a birdbath, etc. Herriman's simple device to keep readers entertained both narratively and visually goes right the heart of a pure comic art. Cartooning has no obligations to reality except that of eternal human truths, and "Krazy Kat" exemplifies this high ideal...