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...killer in the first chapter and makes him the central character. The movie version puts the focus on Inspector Aberline (Depp) and keeps the mystery of Jack's identity going until the final reel. This changes the whole purpose of the work from an examination of "a kind of lace tyin' things together. A kind of lace over everything," as one prophetic character says, into a dull murder mystery with conspiratorial overtones...
...eastern Bosnia, the town of Foca is not a place that welcomes strangers. In the early 1990s it was the site of some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war. Muslims were driven from their homes, raped, robbed and murdered. Some were dumped in the caves that lace the crags above the town; others were dropped in the river, where at night, according to a resident, corpses could be heard hitting the surface "like logs." Recalls an elderly Serb, insisting on anonymity: "The rapes, the atrocities, everything they say is true. I saw them...
...upright with one blade stabbed into a base of red satin sends shivers down the spine as it conjures up the murder weapon from Dial M for Murder. Each object - a bread knife (Blackmail), a ruby necklace (Vertigo), a glass of milk on a silver tray (Suspicion), a black lace bra (Psycho) - is placed on a square of red satin in a glass case along with a small black-and-white scrapbook-style photo of the object's film role. The room is dark, Bernard Herrmann's music for Vertigo and Psycho fill the space, and the observers are cast...
...Consider the weeds. The field's gone rank and knee-deep with bedstraw and Queen Anne's lace and vetch and God knows what other dense rural jungle life, patrolled by over flights of stinging deer flies and creased by deer paths. How do the hawks spot field mice and voles through such dense camouflage...
...this is a show about more than Jackie's trademarks: the boxy jackets and pillbox hats, the three-quarter-length sleeves, the lace mantillas, the overblouse dresses and the sleeveless A-lines. It's also the story of a consummate act of imagemaking. As a Bouvier, she was born with a taste for all things French. By her 20s, that meant anything by Hubert de Givenchy, the French disciple of Balenciaga. Givenchy had dressed Audrey Hepburn in sleek, clean lines that were the last word in mid-'50s modern, a style Jackie adopted as her own. But by 1960, John...