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...Each adventure began with the boy Nemo in his hallucinogenic nightworld, provided some vision or threat, and ended with him waking up startled in bed at home. McCay must have taken inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the publishing sensation of the early 1900s. Nemo is quite like Dorothy Gale, less invigorated than intimidated by this fantastic world, and usually wanting to get back home. ("I don't like this one little tiny bit," he says, "not one tiny weeney...
...22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner...
...forensic expert in Renaissance art and architecture, is trying to prove that The Battle of Anghiari--the mural once considered the greatest of all of Leonardo's masterpieces--lies buried in the Sala del Gran Consiglio in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, behind a wall covered by a mural--a vision of the Battle of Marciano--that was painted in the 16th century...
...upon credit for the accomplishment. There is wisdom here and not the kind usually found in those books on business leadership that proliferate in airport bookstalls. A wimp or a wuss will not do, and mere popularity and likeability are thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss. Mere charm we can do without, but humanity and civility...
That may be starting to change. In conversations with her counterparts overseas--and in two interviews with TIME in the past month--Rice has sketched out a vision of a "new alignment" of forces in the Middle East, in which a "stabilizing" group of U.S. allies, like Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, could unite to contain the "destabilizing" threat posed by Iran and radical groups like Hamas and Hizballah. "There is a recognition that things are really splitting," Rice says, "with extremists on one side and what I call responsible [governments]--because they're not all reformers...