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...much a yarn as a boiled leather strap, "Nightmare Alley" (Fantagraphics Books; 134 pp.; $14.95) tells the story of Stanton Carlisle, who we first meet as an ambitious assistant to a phony medium on the traveling midway. As drawn by Spain, Stanton has the good looks and blank expression of a department store mannequin, and the same sense of morals. Coldy ambitious and hotly lustful, he learns the medium's secrets and begins a "two-a-day" mentalist vaudeville act with Molly, a virginal looker with a thing for daddy. Never satisfied, Stanton tricks up a house and puts...
...gendered” or not), undergraduate pranks often depend as much on the penile as the puerile. If the representation of an erect phallus moves her to violence, perhaps the penis police should try to avoid museums and sculpture gardens. Since ice is, by definition, a temporary medium, the destroyer of the penis might have restrained herself and let nature take her course, which inevitably takes care of the “problem.” With the world in its current state, the only possible reaction to this amount of fuss over a snow sculpture is to laugh...
...first time college students have applied free-speech arguments to similarly degrading examples. For example, at Wesleyan University last fall, College President Douglas S. Bennet finally banned the practice of “chalking,” a euphemism for students scribbling smut on campus sidewalks, and a mainstream medium of expression at a lot of other schools nationwide. Bennet worried that the chalked slogans on Wesleyan’s campus were getting too obscene; some made pornographic references to faculty members. Opponents of his decision equate the chalked obscenities with free expression...
...they do it? By defying nearly every convention of Web publishing. Their site has few interactive gewgaws. Netheads were horrified when, in January 2001, the site began charging several hundred pounds a year to subscribe. Worst of all, it had the audacity to sell its content to that antediluvian medium, the daily newspaper: eight papers across Europe now run Breakingviews content. The result: a lean staff of 10 journalists who churn out a few finely crafted nuggets of financial insight a day. And a few hundred companies willing to pay as much as €73,453 a year for their...
Though some criticize blogs as frivolous soapboxes for those without a medium to vent and whine, Winer said he is confident that introducing more blogs to Harvard is a worthwhile pursuit...