Word: daniele
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...public comment on John Lennon's murder in December 1980 - "It's a drag" - was at the time held up as an example of gross insensitivity by an estranged friend. In reality it was the understatement of devastation. There's a telling line in Sidney Lumet's 1983 film "Daniel" - a fictionalized account of the struggles of the two children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "Why don't you console her?" asks someone about the suicidal daughter at one point. The answer: "Did it ever occur to you that she might be inconsolable...
...David Boring," by Daniel Clowes Sharing similar themes with "Jimmy Corrigan," "David Boring" features a young man with a vanished father and a clinging mother. But its grayish-blue palette and more conventional layout give it an air of grim seriousness against which take place completely absurd events. (At one point Boring gets shot in the head but merely suffers a dent in his brow.) Clowes has made "David Boring" the most readable comic novel of the year...
...Where to Get the Goods: "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," ($27.50) by Chris Ware; "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District" ($22) by Ben Katchor; and "David Boring" ($24.95) by Daniel Clowes are all hardbacks, published by Pantheon, and are available at regular bookstores and their Internet counterparts...
...CCSR is composed of two Corporation members--Chair Robert G. Stone, Jr. '45 and D. Ronald Daniel, University treasurer. They make the final decisions based in part on the recommendations of the ACSR...
...DANIEL CONNER, ALONG WITH OTHERS, PATENTED A TRAP CALLED THE CLAWS. UNLUCKY RODENTS WERE ENTICED TO JUMP UP AND SNATCH A MORSEL OVERHEAD. THOSE WHO DID WERE SUMMARILY DISPATCHED...