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...police theorized that the murderer had to be someone who was familiar with the Met's backstage maze of corridors, dressing rooms, stairways and elevator shafts, in which Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera would feel very much at home. Further, said the officers, the killer probably was a Met employee, since he managed to get by guards at the door and pass unchallenged among the 250 dancers, musicians and stagehands who were present for the performance...
KUBRICK'S CAMERA NEVER RESTS, sliding past the pillars and walls of this magnificent hotel, keeping us confused. Like the Torrances, we get lost in this maze of doors and rooms and carpeted hallways. Several times the camera dances to floor-level and we view Danny, Wendy and Jack from the Overlook's perspective: Danny through the bars of his tricycle; Wendy a prisoner of Jack's typewriter; and Jack a desperate, slovenly, impotent creature...
Interviews with Yasser Arafat sometimes take place at odd hours and in strange places. At 11:30 p.m on a Wednesday, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish were driven through a maze of back streets in Beirut to a nondescript building that currently serves as headquarters for the armed of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Young men armed with AK-47s guarded his office; a portrait of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini hung on one wall. Arafat was finishing a letter to the Ayatullah when his guests arrived. Some of the points...
...being blanketed. For the first time in history, man-made snow was being used for Nordic skiing. In less than a month, Fletcher's crew of 50-plus men, 30 dump trucks and 19 spreading machines had trundled through the woods around Mount Van Hoevenberg and covered a maze of trails 17 miles long with almost a foot of snow...
...composition of herbaceous borders, the concoction of raspberry tarts and the preparation of potions of cocoa laced with rum and chocolate shavings. Yet Ariadne moves briskly through this classic obstacle course. And why not? She was named for the Greek princess who knew her way around a maze, and those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love, a horrific illegal abortion, even an infanticide of mythic proportion. Other beginnings-an unfulfilled love affair, a suicide attempt-erupt with a pyrotechnic glare that gradually dims under the author's keen, ironic scrutiny...