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...admirable ambition, The Plot doesn't perfectly gel into a masterpiece. It suffers chiefly from a problem I have found in many of Eisner's graphic novels: a sometimes-fatal distrust of the audience. Expository dialogue, repetitious action and one-dimensional characterization make The Plot feel more like a lesson than a deeply involving story. In the biographical first third, for example, character development never goes beyond stereotype, as if giving Golovinski more than one dimension would confuse us. One scene depicts a young Golovinski stealing his mother's necklace for no apparent purpose. Presumably fabricated, it reads like scene...
Walsh, it seems, has committed that very lesson to memory himself...
...town's elegant modernist De La Warr Pavilion, the architectural toast of 1935. This low-rise was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff when landscape buildings were fashionable. Vertical may be victorious, but horizontal is happier. Allan Bula Bexhill on Sea, England Lingering Racism Your article "a difficult lesson" described the racism that persists in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid [April 25]. I am an Italian, and I have lived in Durban, South Africa, on and off for four years. The first time was when apartheid was still dominant. The second time was when apartheid...
...demands of teaching. "The single most important challenge that our country faces in education," Nelson said, "is how do we raise the respect society has for teaching as a profession?" While the committee will report back next year, New Zealand schools believe they could give their Australian counterparts a lesson in teacher?parent harmony right now. "There's an extremely pervasive culture here," says John Grant, principal of Kaipara College, a state high school in Helensville, near Auckland, "that emphasizes schools' accountability to their parents...
Walsh, it seems, has committed that very lesson to memory himself...