Word: alleys
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...reveal, conceal and distort the workings of a person's mind and desires. In Sleuth he created a Chinese-box plot that on the surface was a very theatrical mystery, but at heart was a parable of sexual envy and English class hatred. Again, right up Pinter's dark alley...
...industry stuck in the financial equivalent of Hurricane Alley, In Rainbows is more than just another storm. "This could be the mother of them all," e-mailed an A.-and-R. executive at a major European label. EMI pulled in $3.6 billion last year. It is a couple of Radioheads away from a musical New Orleans. Many record-company lifers were stung by the rejection of a band on a decade-long run of excellence, but the real damage could stem less from Radiohead's determination to go it alone than from its "stadium sound at museum pricing" scheme. "That...
...known to host ridiculous ragers. These new residents are happy to oblige, saying they will host for everyone “including freshmen.” The house’s common room on the ground floor, which was decorated with help from Claverly security guard Pearl, faces the alley between Linden St. and Holyoke St. Security can be an issue as the house does not have swipe access, only key access. Sharp says “urinators like to collect in the dark corner” of the alley, and occasionally late-night wanderers swing by in search...
...family before Beijing fell to the Communists in 1949 are now packed with five or six. Toilets and showers are communal and sometimes hundreds of meters away. Heating comes from smoky coal fires, and deaths from asphyxiation are common. Xu Xiaotang, who has lived in the same central-Beijing alley for nearly a half- century, would move out tomorrow if he could afford to. "This is not a place for humans to live," Xu says...
...even those resistant to or unmoved by the story can appreciate Taymor's settings of the songs, and the arrangements by T-Bone Burnett and other studio masters. The movie speeds up the 2/4 "I've Just Seen a Face" (for a zestful scene in a bowling alley) and slows down the ballad "If I Fell" (which Wood does very nicely), but the songs are flexible enough to still sound great. To invoke the Detroit riots, a black boy sings "Let It Be," which, upon his death, is taken up by a gospel choir at his funeral. When Max goes...