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...especially indebted to Anthony Shaffer's play and film Sleuth, in which the wily perpetrator revels in elaborate gamesmanship, with a soupcon of sadism and a killer of a kicker. The talking doll in Saw is a direct descendant of a toy that the Sleuth perp uses for malevolent effect. In a 2001 interview, Shaffer said he was inspired to write his mystery after taking part in one of Stephen Sondheim's maniacally elaborate treasure hunts. One clue directed players to a nearly deserted town near a lake. When they found the pertinent clue, a hand jutted...
...really aren’t that bad and can even provide better company than our classmates. First off, they were actually willing to talk with us about issues that matter, like our Lord Jesus Christ. For example, one man in a sandwich board holding a sack filled with baby doll parts gave us each a cartoon pamphlet and dialogued with us about the miraculous power of His love. (Corinthians 2:14). Yet if we had had this conversation with the typical Harvard student, it probably would have devolved into some Zionist diatribe about Larry Summers being the best Harvard president...
...confused with “rave,” of course, a very mid-nineties word (think Empire Records and Claire Danes) that defined an all-night party, usually in a warehouse-like club, most likely featuring numbing techno, and almost always involving drugs and military boots with baby-doll dresses. Raging is a far more extroverted action:rowdy rather than racy, overdone rather than underground. It entails whooping instead of whispering and will almost always feature Heineken over a hallucinogen. An improvement, some could say. A collegiate prerogative, you could argue. And it’s true that outward...
Ride a bull for a living, and you can be the richest rag doll on earth. All you have to do is last eight excruciating seconds on an agitated 1,800-lb. animal that would like nothing more than to smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years...
...formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, but the Spanish Civil War forced him to decamp to Paris. It was there that he showed some of fashion's most influential silhouettes, including the cocoon coat, the chemise and the baby-doll dress. His presentations were held a full month after other Paris houses', but that didn't deter devoted clients like Wallis Simpson, Princess Grace and Babe Paley. They were devastated when Balenciaga closed his house in 1968. But the legacy of his architectural silhouettes lived on in the work...