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...mood for something old school (or morbid)? Don't miss the Egyptian Funerary Arts exhibit on "Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians." Justpray that your accessories aren't around inthousands of years. Museum of Fine Arts, 465Huntington Ave. 267-9300. 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.FREE...
Insert here a quotation from a Shakespearean comedy about illusions and switcheroos. Except that here it's relentlessly morbid and with little song and dance to the loud-and-clear cynicism. After getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality and hard-nosed policing (reality) can coexist. It's not that she doesn't think they can, but that it doesn't matter--they're no threat, he's just another rube, another biped bovine...
Ultimately, no new ground is really broken byJawbreaker. It's not a terrible movie, butits frankness, blunt honesty and morbid subjectmatter render it a movie for those with strongstomachs and an even darker sense of humor. Itsone triumph is its success in pinpointing the oneuniversal truth of high school. Forget Satan andall of his minions; the embodiment of pure evil inhigh school wears dark lipstick and miniskirts...
...escape. Before too long, the familiar melody of "Frere Jacques" creeps into the orchestra, seducing one section at a time until every instrument had slowly succumbed. This movement is known to parody a funeral march, but what is being parodied--the funeral or the children's song--remains a morbid mystery...
...years old the first time Master Georgie ordered me to stand stock still and not blink...Mr. Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead." And with no further ado, British author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George...