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...Muskiet. Over the past 30 years the KLM flight attendant has amassed one of the world's largest collections of stewardess uniforms. He even has very rare 1960s uniforms from defunct Braniff Air that were created by celebrated Italian designer Emilio Pucci. But Muskiet is not always happy to depart with spiraling sums for air couture...
...many a great dramatic work—think Richard III or Oedipus Rex—the setting is merely a backdrop for the message. A misanthropic deconstruction of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town, Dogville draws very much on theatrical (and literary) conventions in order to depart from more traditional cinematic renderings and privilege the message over the medium. The ensemble cast performs every bit as well as its marquee actors should imply. Nicole Kidman shows us why she should only act in art films; Chloë Sevigny, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Clarkson, and Ben Gazzara all live...
...many a great dramatic work—think Richard III or Oedipus Rex—the setting is merely a backdrop for the message. A misanthropic deconstruction of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town, Dogville draws very much on theatrical (and literary) conventions in order to depart from more traditional cinematic renderings and privilege the message over the medium...
...Collective, it seems that the players involved have been content to leave behind the sound that made the group so popular in the musical underground: bombastic, psychedelic arrangements condensed into indie-pop gems, with alternating absurdity and striking poignancy. Athens, Ga.’s Elf Power continue to depart from this sound on their new release, an album striking mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album has a warm, folksy sound, immersed in twanging banjo...
...secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind”) is pretty straightforward: Enter to expand your knowledge of useless trivia. Depart to better promote the wonders of this University to the world. Seriously, this place owes one a stipend as a tour guide...