Morag: "From today on, our village will be duke-less no more." [the crowd cheers] "Lincoln Albert Loud, by the powers vested in me..." [Angus dukes Lincoln with the scepter and winks.] Lincoln: "Oooh. Cool duke stick." Angus: "It's the royal scepter, sire." Morag: "Ahem." ...
[阅读理解] I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a loud voice boom from across the aisle. “Mom, come here! There’s a lady here my size!”The mother rushed to the boy she called Mickey; then she turned to me to apologize.I smiled and told her, “It’ s okay.” Then...
I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a loud voice boom from across the aisle. “Mom, come here! There’s a lady here my size!”The mother rushed to the boy she called Mickey; then she turned to me to apologize.I smiled and told her, “It’ s okay.” Then I talked to...
Nothing else came from any time else, unless you count ‘Shake’, which is on that ‘missing’ Animalism album, but had been in the Animals’ repertoire for much longer, and which turned up in an encore that combined Boom Boom, Shake and Around and Around. The surprise, and for me ...
Los Angeles writer Sean Mitchell's last piece for this magazine was on Nashville's country-music boom Ten weeks before today’s season opener, on a hot Los Angeles afternoon, the lobby of the Century Plaza hotel is humming with people who look like they’ve arrived at more than a conven...
Easy credit certainly played a role, though, which you must admit. Subprime loans (lent during the boom of easy credit) were defaulted, meaning that assets were wiped off banks’ balance sheets. They called in loans to finance short-term liabilities, there was a collapse in lending and credi...
If you’d asked me before the present boom times to name the least likely former members of both the Avengers and the Justice League ever to see the light of live-action film or television, the two heroines depicted in today’s featured artwork (created by penciler Robb Phipps a full dec...
If you’d asked me before the present boom times to name the least likely former members of both the Avengers and the Justice League ever to see the light of live-action film or television, the two heroines depicted in today’s featured artwork (created by penciler Robb Phipps a full dec...
For example, today (and tomorrow too, for that matter, but Sundays are always out for me anyway) is Super-Con, the second of the Bay Area's two huge annual comic book conventions. For a comics fanatic, and especially an original comic art collection, a con of this magnitude is as ...