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...China, but distance can give them a fresh perspective - and freedom to say things unwelcome in Beijing. The Uninvited will not get Yan invited to many Beijing banquets. Dan Dong and his wife Little Plum have come to the capital from impoverished Gansu province and a childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park...
...punk inspired (although black nail polish is all the rage again), and it doesn't look burlesque, but a decidedly dark trend is emerging in makeup colors--just in time for the holidays. Lancôme calls its new sculpting mascara Fatale, and MAC cosmetics is promoting its Nocturnelle collection on burlesque performer Dita Von Teese. So don't be surprised when you see that the shade of the bottle of Tom Ford's new fragrance, Black Orchid, is, well, black...
...AFTER DARK MAC cosmetics creative director James Gager was trying to evoke the mystery of the evening when he created colors like Cabaret Red, above...
...Poppins make it in a season in which hip curios are in vogue? Poor Mary has already got some preopening scolding. Despite its two-year, nearly sold-out run in London (and an advance sale of more than $20 million in the U.S.), some have deemed the show too dark for delicate American kids. The chief culprit: a new number called Temper, Temper, in which toys in the children's bedroom come to life. The fears are silly; Pinocchio was scarier. But the concerns are rather sweet--as if the critics were inventing some bad behavior for their goody-goody...
...supposed to draw back aghast from the close-ups of Diane endlessly applying her razor to Lionel's pelt. At the same time we are supposed to applaud her humanistic bravery, especially since Kidman always plays her naively, as an innocent eager to investigate the world's dark side but never her own. This, of course, ignores the evidence of Arbus' own unblinking confrontations with the grotesque. It also ignores the fact that she ended her life by suicide...