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...dark. Suddenly, the rosy butt of a cigarette gleams against the shadows. The spotlight rises and a man in a fedora and battered trench coat strolls through the haze of smoke. "It was a Monday," Sam says, in a voice reminiscent of Bogart. Sam is, predictably enough, a detective. Unpredictably, however, he is a Japanese-Canadian...
...industry's optimistic reaction seems justified. Take coats, for instance. They were the strongest single element in the shows held in the three major fashion capitals-not innovative, but fastidiously cut and elegant. They even looked warm. Many of the best were redingotes, originally an 18th century man's mantle, with a fitted waist and full skirt. Hermes, which went far beyond its traditional horse-culture clothes, had some midnight-blue beauties. For the truly romantic, Yohji Yamamoto continued his exploration of Victorian dress with very full crinoline coats. All around the designer map, from Dior to Ralph Lauren...
...written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
Adding a note of mystery, the film is punctuated with shots of an anonymous man who sits by a fire at the edge of the lake by Pavel's home. Wrapped in a tattered fur coat and wincing faintly, he looks as if he knows the cruelty of the world around him. Like the audience, he is a spectator, neither directly involved or affected. Is God just another spectator? Despite the final confrontation, the question of God's existence remains unresolved...
...Bostones, two bands that have gotten a more mainstream following in recent years, still have drifted more towards hard rock. Ska fans are undeterred however, for they are an extremely loyal group, eagerly flocking to shows in and around Boston all decked out in the ska uniform of sport coat, dress shirt and thin black...