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...interplay of light and shadows betrays his influence. Set in post-war Vienna, split into four zones by the occupying powers, this film, written by Graham Greene, is without a doubt one of the best spy thrillers ever made. Tense, well-paced, and exciting, it features Welles as Harry Lime, a treacherous amoral operator around whose machiavellian vision the whole film revolves. Few films other than Hitchcock's pack so much anxiety into a single shot: a cat licking a man's shoe makes us jump in our seats...
Medenica set out last weekend for Connecticut's Lime Rock Park, ready to tackle the SCCA's first regional race in the New England championship series. Since he began his racing career in 1974, Medenica had never finished better than 12th in a regional, but this year he began harboring big ambitions...
Still, Medenica and his crew are not out of place at Lime Rock. The track doesn't belong in the same universe with the half-mile ovals of the stock-car league; since much of the 1.5-mile racecourse winds through hilly countryside, it is hardly an ideal place for the beer-guzzling spectators who grace the speedways of the more popular circuit...
Medenica began the weekend early Friday afternoon, retrieving his racer from its garage in Concord and then towing it along on the four-hour trek to Lime Rock. The next step was a few hours of sleep before rising at 6 a.m. Saturday to beat the crowd to the registration line...
...course in finger painting. One of the most innovative designers is Paula Johnson, who has turned one customer's fingernails into a handful of cards (a full house). Manicurist Dyan Hill, who had five years of art school, recently deployed a Chinese dragon in turquoise, gold, orange, lime green and fuchsia for Singer Linda Miles. Says Hill: "I found that painting designs on nails has a way of combining my art and my profession...