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...generically creepy, borderline-camp horror show, with images of rats running across a fetid swamp and undead hands reaching up from the deep. There's a ghoulish narrator--he sounds as if he could be the host of Count Spooky's Nightmare Theater on a UHF station circa 1965--who reads lines like "This is the realm of darkness" and "The ground is uneasy, and old secrets have begun to rise to the surface." The second is a slightly ham-handed satire of corporate medicine, with Ed Begley Jr. as hospital administrator Dr. Jesse James (get it?) jazzed about...
...Foley & Corinna in New York City, A new, peppermint pink bustier glows beside a 1962 cotton sundress and a Christian Dior cashmere sweater circa 1980. Shoppers at Vylette in Austin, Texas, peruse the latest collections from Lacoste and Marc by Marc Jacobs along with vintage khaki skirts and crocheted sweaters--many of them rescued from oblivion by one of the store owners' mothers, who frequents garage sales...
...roster of boutiques selling the old with the new is Lyell, a lovingly designed shop with a stamped tin ceiling and authentic '40s wallpaper. It sells a well-edited collection of vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell line of "vintage-inspired clothes." A circa 1960 Kelly green butterfly-print dress by Japanese designer Hanae Mori and a '70s-era black pleated skirt with a red Provencal-print border hang beside Fletcher's new collection of tulip-print, silk-chiffon tie blouses, velvet jackets lined in silk and '40s-style dresses (the designer's personal favorite...
...Holy Spirit leaves the room when a married couple has sex, even if they do it without passion to make new virgins for the kingdom of heaven." PETER LOMBARD, theologian (circa...
...ANYONE WHO IS TOO PASSIONATE A LOVER OF HIS WIFE IS AN ADULTERER." ST. JEROME, theologian (circa...