Word: besottedness
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The racetrack used to be Carlyon's beat, but a visit to Gallipoli in 1998 left him "completely besotted with the place. I wanted to know more and more." For a writer, war offers an incomparable canvas, he says: "It's life and death. Everything's there." The titanic scale...
The film also shows the seemingly honest Lee as a surprise partaker in police corruption, but since most of the film's other police officers are seen to be honest, if rather dull, fellows, this plot strand doesn't elicit much shock or insight, either. But the silliest aspect of...
On one side of the room, ensconced on a banquette with some Parisian notables, was François-Henri Pinault, the affable CEO of PPR (formerly Pinault-Printemps Redoute), which owns Bottega Veneta and other high-end brands such as Gucci. At the center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a...
Boldly designed -- the front, back and spine are without identifying text -- Stevens uses a painstaking cross-hatched style to bring out shades and textures from the black and white palette. Its detailed, photo-based images and its pitch-perfect, "overheard" dialogue, give "Guilty" the sense of a verite documentary. Even...
In a refinement of the idea, some characters have destroyed themselves precisely by incarnating themselves. Toward the end of his life, Charles Dickens, pressed for money, set off on grueling reading tours in which he became "Dickens," a lecture-hall version of himself. The labor exhausted him and hastened his...