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...Gena Rowlands. In this house with many doors and no mirrors, she is handed the “skeleton key,” the one key that will unlock all the doors (a symbolism carried to extremes throughout the film). When she has trouble unlocking the door in the attic, she starts to suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
...best, the early days of the 20th. Today, after almost a quarter-century of secession from the world at large, Burma resembles nothing so much as a cob-webbed attic cluttered with sepia-toned relics, moth-eaten keepsakes and old curiosities. Along the capital's streets, there are no high-rises, no nightclubs, no neon signs; even Coca-Cola is unknown here. At the offices of Burma Airways, as in every other office, there are no typewriters, let alone computer terminals, just bulky Dickensian ledgers thick with dust. The country boasts two TV stations, but neither of them broadcasts...
Toward the world at large, the country has creaked open as slowly as an ill-oiled attic door. More than a decade passed after the government announced its willingness to enter into joint-venture enterprises before the first such project was undertaken. In 1984 Burma signed a deal with Fritz Werner, a German munitions firm long associated with Ne Win. The intention: to manufacture obsolete German G-3 automatic rifles for the Burmese army. During the first decade of Ne Win's rule, foreigners were allowed to enter Burma for all of 24 hours; these days the government issues seven...
Lillian Hellman will be remembered for her plays The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic. But she seemed to yearn to be remembered for her defiance of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952, when it asked her to testify about her Stalinist ties and those of her associates. Throughout her 79 years, especially in the memoirs she wrote during her final two decades, Hellman delighted in presenting herself as tough, combative and above all principled. Many critics, among them former friends, accused her of having a higher regard for her reputation than for the literal truth...