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...hands of underground-comic pioneer Spain Rodriguez, the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel (later a 1947 movie) gets the cartoon treatment its subjects--hustling and degradation in a 1930s carnival--beg for. Magician Stanton Carlisle hatches a plan to pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...
...Intervening Interests Michael Elliott stated that the Bush Administration needs to clearly explain why it wants to intervene in places such as Liberia that do not appear to pose a direct threat to the U.S. [July 14]. He noted that "dangers await any Administration that strays from the national interest as the lodestar of its policy." I disagree and support U.S. intervention in troubled countries for humanitarian purposes. George W. Bush should definitely send troops to Liberia, regardless of whether doing so is a matter of national interest for the U.S. On many occasions the U.S. has been...
...much television, argue virulently for fiber, and warn that using police-issue handcuffs during bondage "can lead to nerve and bone damage, sometimes irreparable." Sharkey can also draw and did all the diagrams in the book, which, as her off-page modesty would dictate, required getting people to pose wearing bathing suits. There's even a three-page bibliography...
...Andrew D. Arnold Where's Shiga? The Eisner winners pose with an imposter in the lower right...
...during which students pursue one of several non-academic offerings, such as public speaking or visual art—and a 50-minute “homework hut,” where they begin their two hours of nightly homework under their teachers’ supervision, allowing them pose questions lingering from the day’s classes...