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...supposedly doctored photos of a smiling Elian but savvy enough to overshadow the Attorney General's press conference with her guided tour through the upturned bedroom. After Donato Dalrymple joined the Gonzalez household, so crowded with hangers-on it resembled the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera, Marisleysis burnished his image as the heroic fisherman who saved Elian. As it turns out, he's a housecleaner who has been so hungry for the limelight that his cousin, the veteran seaman on the boat, has vowed never to see him again...
...from the Old Norse vik, meaning bay) refers properly only to men who went on raids. All Vikings were Norse, but not all Norse were Vikings--and those who were did their viking only part time. Vikings didn't wear horned helmets (a fiction probably created for 19th century opera). And while rape and pillage were part of the agenda, they were a small part of Norse life...
...does not always protect fools and drunks. He almost never protects the beautiful. But Elizabeth Taylor survived. Taylor turned her life into America's longest-running one-woman soap opera. At this point, her tacky misadventures seem to have been going on since the beginning of time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush...
...many. Maybe it's two too many," says Joe Sacco, who spent 4 1/2 months in the former Yugoslavia to report his epic comic book, Safe Area Gorazde (Fantagraphics; 230 pages; $28.95), due out next month. "People can follow what's going on in a soap opera but can't follow what's going on in Bosnia...
...does not always protect fools and drunks. He almost never protects the beautiful. But Elizabeth Taylor survived. Taylor turned her life into America's longest-running one-woman soap opera. Her tacky misadventures seem to have been going on since the beginning of time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes...