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...glimpses on the street. Is he hallucinating? Or was the bombing a pretext, letting her slip deeper into the radical underground? We never really know--or care. That's partly because of the inept production design (Montreal is visibly not New York City or Chicago), partly because of the flat direction and writing (also Gordon's). It's time to let these socio-political ghosts...
...offering assistance to the plain-clothes officers on Storrow Drive who helped a family with a flat tire off of the road. Waited until the tow truck arrived and the situation was under control...
...static pictorial terms, the results could be marvellous. The iconic example--The Persistence of Memory, 1929, with its everlastingly famous soft watches--is not in this show, but another and equally beautiful small picture is: Paranoiac-Astral Image, 1934. On a vast and otherwise empty plane of beach flat as a billiard table, four images are dispersed. A fragment of an amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded boat, another woman, probably...
...think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born of her experience--terrifying autistic episodes of overstimulation. In theory, the story is ghastly. In practice, it's flat-out beautiful...
...holds up a fat sprig of marijuana buds and points out the crystals of dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British...