Word: deviled
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SOME of my friends call me a "walking anomaly." My roommate tells me that the posters in my room traumatize him. And some have suggested--only half in jest-that my outward religious observance is just--the perfect guise for secret devil worship...
...gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch -- her body. "How little you know of love," she sighs in A Woman of Affairs, "my kind of love." Her films, from Flesh and the Devil to The Mysterious Lady, from Anna Christie to Anna Karenina, were a master course in the varieties of that kind of love: desperate, consuming, exalted. They were also lessons in her kind of star acting. Cinema would never again see its like...
...pieces in this exhibition are skillfully done, or even originally conceived. "Two Dogs," by Nicholas Dunbar is a sloppy rendition of a somewhat dull concept. Pastel, dripped paint surrounds a dog, presented as an angel on the first canvas. On the second canvas is another dog, represented as the Devil, as not so subtly suggested by his red horns and tail...
...family tree of matter and the difference between types of gigantic underground colliders, the huge machines in which subatomic particles are accelerated to fantastic speeds. "Each assignment has its own challenge," says Lertola. "The image has to get an idea across in a % clever way. This time the devil was in the detail: colors, shapes and contrasts...
...first three-dimensional-movie craze earned the technology a bad reputation that has lasted for decades. The hundred or so 3-D feature films and short subjects produced between late 1952 and early 1954 rarely rose above the spear-chucking Bwana Devil or the gore-splattered Creature from the Black * Lagoon. But what really killed 3-D in the '50s -- and in subsequent revivals in the '60s, '70s and '80s -- was not so much bad movies as bad 3-D. Even classics like Kiss Me Kate and Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder have effects that when seen...