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...hour or so remaining after this intermission includes several of the weakest moments of the film, particularly in the final scene. When Hamlet finally kills Claudius, after prancing about with Laertes in their respective chest wigs, he does it as if cut from the same cloth as "Flash Gordon." Throwing his rapier from the balcony like a javelin, Hamlet pins Claudius to his throne (note: poetic justice) and swings down on the chandelier in order to splash drops of poison into his mouth, all the while bellowing about his impending death, the stellar revenge he has enacted, and his chest...
...asks each First Lady to donate something--not necessarily a dress, though it almost always is--to the collection. And ever since Jackie Kennedy (who set the modern glam standard), it seems the Republicans have been cleaning out their closets quicker, perhaps to make room for all those new cloth coats...
...espionage game. Nothing is actually going on in Panama that demands being spied upon, but that doesn't stop a couple of itchy agents in British intelligence. In Panama City they blackmail a well-connected tailor who obediently weaves a dire plot against British interests out of whole cloth. As with any good fiction, imagined events lead to real repercussions...
...rescue operations were taking place. At the height of the fire, flames leapt from windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building was engulfed in heavy smoke. Steel window frames on the top floor were bent by intense heat. Some people inside waved pieces of cloth through ventilation shafts, trying to alert rescuers. Two government helicopters were used to pluck people to safety...
...abstraction a representation? The questions twist back to Rene Magritte's famous brainteaser, the painting of a pipe with "This is not a pipe" written above it (of course not, dummy; it's a painting). Flag is designed like a flag, but it's made of paint, not cloth, and it cannot "fly"; it is static, stretched, rigid. You are meant to pay attention to its surface, which never happens with a real flag. This surface is discreetly sumptuous and full of energy, with marks and dribbles of wax encaustic over a ground of glued-on newspaper. On one hand...