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...wounded veterans; it was the first of many Jarre pieces (The Longest Day, The Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) that found a sepulchral undertone in martial music. Old masters like William Wyler (The Collector) and Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz) and Young Turks like Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) and Jerry Zucker (Ghost) called on Jarre to provide music that was subtle and looming, like a shiver in the shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maurice Jarre | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...hate charismatic; he may be entirely depraved, but he is vibrantly alive. As he lets go of life, he slips into a madness that may or may not be drug-induced. His conversations with Belize, the night nurse, become increasingly hallucinogenic, but even stranger is his relationship with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Roy killed Ethel, and now she is back to watch him writhe in agony alone on a hospital bed. Rachel E. Flynn ’09 conveys with her eyes, from 50 feet away, a schadenfreude-inflected delight as she hovers over him. As the play spirals...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Perestroika’ Confronts Prejudice and Overturns an Established Social Order | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...ghost tweeters •existence of is revealed, to which anyone with half a brain can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...lent it to William Wyler's The Collector, Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum, George Miller's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Paul Mazursky's Enemies; A Love Story and Jerry Zucker's Ghost. He could churn out military music in a minor key, like a sarcastic Sousa; that's what you hear under the espionage chicanery in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, ornamenting the anti-Nazi smuggling in John Frankenheimer's The Train and underlining the grand folly of two British soldiers' Afghanistan caper in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. At times Jarre mocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epic Composer Maurice Jarre Dies at 84 | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...that so far they have found no evidence of contamination. For the German police, it would be a relief to discover that the mysterious female serial killer doesn't actually exist. But it would also be a bitter confirmation of the thousands of man-hours wasted chasing a ghost - and of the 40 criminal investigations that are now back to square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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