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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...
...also true that this problem deserves a response that lasts longer than the summer heat. Other European countries are also struggling to get a fix on their death tolls - Portugal has announced that 1,300 have died, while Italy does not yet have a national total and Spain has reported at least 100 deaths. Though these numbers will likely rise, France is in a league of its own. "Our older population suffered incomparably higher fatalities - and there are reasons for that," says Mantion. Everywhere, there is a tendency to treat heat-wave deaths as inevitable, a sad by-product...
...next day, we take a bus to the Pyrenees—Devin to hike into Spain, me to research at the foot of glaciers. When I come back to Lourdes a few days later to finish my work, I have no thunderous emotional reaction. Lourdes is old hat, and I’m all business. I check off addresses and check out new restaurants for Let’s Go. Finally, I’m ready to leave...
...with Andre Brassard: DO reduce portions in restaurants. Obscenely large is probably an understatement. This is one of the things that struck me the most as a European tourist in the States. And those bucketfuls of popcorn at cinemas, of ice cream at supermakets, and so on... Fernando Corts Spain...
Barcelona (Spain) €41 million; four players, including Brazilian star Ronaldinho and Portuguese forward Ricardo Quaresma...