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...Night? was Woolrich?s prime mixture of the paranoid and the paranormal - a cocktail that rarely fizzes in this flat adaptation. You will make do with minor pleasures: Robinson?s walking-dead pallor as Triton (who calls himself ?a zombie in reverse?); Russell?s fragile beauty (she would drink herself to death at 36); the movie?s last words, that ?there are things on earth still hidden from us. Secret things, dark and mysterious.? Like the resolution of a Woolrich plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...intimate a reckoning as this--and not just on our side? Mohamed Atta was a scrawny kid who liked chess and got upset if someone killed a bug. Osama bin Laden was devoted to his mama and liked to drive tractors and watch nature videos. We compare his pallor from video to video to assess his failing health. This is indeed the devil we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When War Becomes This Personal | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...could be a real grind-it-out comeback. Although consumers have been pretty stalwart, considering, about doing the patriotic thing and spending their money, the job market is still a very scary place, and the emotional pallor of the post-Sept. 11 world still means a damper on traffic at the malls. (Just ask retailers this winter. Or better yet, look at their discounts.) Consumers, accounting for two thirds of U.S. economic activity and generally very conscientious about it, have pulled us through one potential economic crisis after another through the 90s, and they can't be blamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Just Like Last Year? | 1/2/2002 | See Source »

...Edhi ambulance picked him up. From there, he was taken to the civil hospital in Quetta, where he still awaits an operation to remove the bullets. Abdul Halim, was beside him, gently massaging his brother's hand. Hekmatullah was bearded (of course), and he had a gaunt, ascetic pallor; it was like a deathbed scene by El Greco. "Why has this happened to my brother?" cried Abdul Halim in disbelief. Under the circumstances, I couldn't bring myself to explain about "collateral damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ordinary Afghans Hurt by the War | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...black skies shot through with angry red accents. The skin tones of the figures are also darker than those in depicted in the other works displayed, created from a mixture of reds, grays and greens. This combination of colors creates an impressive depiction of death’s pallor in “Too Heavy...

Author: By Emily W. Porter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Re-Membering Myth | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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