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...Just get a load of the cover: a trompe l'oeil reproduction of an old-fashioned radio with the title all but hidden as a manufacturing label. Not your usual comix cover. Flipping it open you expect to find a catalogue of radio parts, but instead get sucked in by the new-old-fashioned penwork of Matt Kindt. He relies on just a few, expressive strokes and flat blocks of black ink to create the art deco world of "Pistolwhip." Nearly abstract slashes and squiggles organize themselves into characters and place, often seen from wild points of view. One panel...
...under what is now the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City reveals the way the town's elite lived. Two-story houses, built around stone-paved inner courts, had separate baths for regular and ritual cleansing. Floors boasted fine mosaics; on the walls were frescoes or trompe l'oeil stucco that mimicked masonry. Archaeologists have uncovered finely crafted glass goblets and delicate perfume flasks. Experts are divided as to whether such prosperity was shared. Says Reich: "There weren't any real poor people in Jerusalem then. There were the rich and the less rich." Argues Fabian Udoh, professor...
Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...
Hata's outward and inward lives are patterned like a trompe l'oeil, one of those tricky designs in which images emerge or recede with changes of perspective. Now a contemporary American suburbia is the focus; now a 1944 Pacific outpost turns the future Bedley Run into background...
...case has always been an espionage trompe l'oeil, its outline and impact differing for each viewer. After getting over their initial shock at Pollard's acts, most Israelis and many U.S. Jewish groups believe Pollard, who has been in jail for 13 years, has been adequately punished. But inside the U.S. intelligence and military communities, there remains little doubt that Pollard's perfidy not only warranted but required the life sentence he received. To U.S. intelligence officials Pollard was a traitor whose release would give other allies a green light to spy on America. Pollard, they argue...