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...reveal, conceal and distort the workings of a person's mind and desires. In Sleuth he created a Chinese-box plot that on the surface was a very theatrical mystery, but at heart was a parable of sexual envy and English class hatred. Again, right up Pinter's dark alley...
...example of his social satire at its most exquisitely cutting. Beckmann finds the gruesome in the glamorous, as bored and beautiful women in profile dance with men whose eyes they won’t meet. 1932’s “Landscape with Tempest,” dark and brooding where the other is light, could be interpreted as an ominous acknowledgment of Beckmann’s own fears—a label points out the hint of a swastika in a bent tree’s branches. “Woman with Mandolin in Yellow and Red?...
...ceiling of the tent inside the Louvre's Cour Carre, where Marc Jacobs was showing his spring 2008 collection for Louis Vuitton, was lined with giant pulp-romance-novel covers featuring lurid titles like Taipei After Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point...
...soldiers, who are jeered and pelted with rocks as they approach the Sule Pagoda. Again the soldiers fire over the protesters' heads. As dusk approaches, the crowds disperse. Nighttime Rangoon is usually a vibrant place, its sidewalks crowded with tea shops. Now nobody wants to be out after dark...
...nations is limited to a trickle of trucks on the bridge's single lane. At night, the contrast is vividly instructive: Dandong's bustling waterfront turns into a riot of neon, while Sinuiju is pitched into nearly total blackness. How will North Korea ever pull itself out of the dark ages if it can't even keep the lights...