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Peter Jackson's black comedy, "Heavenly Creatures," is a dizzying pastel debacle of school-girl passion, wild imagination and murderous ambition. The film version of the true story is set in mid-1950s Christchurch, New Zealand. Is it coincidental that "Picnic at Hanging Rock," another tale of school-girl mayhem, is set in nearby Australia? In any case, historical fact is wrapped up in Jackson's fictional version like grotesque reality in frilly paper--this film is a deliciously unpleasant surprise package...
...Light mixes of baby blue and lavender reflect a magical violet and pink sky shining down on picnickers in sun-bonnets sitting under the shade of stubby saplings whilst a glow of yellow gold bathes the hillock rising up from the watery expanse. Vose Galleries deemed this, Picnic Overlooking the Harbor, as Farndon's most important work, and indeed his success in capturing a vision of paradise seems to have compelled him in many of his works only with incomplete and less satisfactory results...
...rest," he told her, promising a stay of several weeks. Instead she spent two years in a "parallel universe," a sorority house of sorts, but with barred windows, a ban on sharp objects and constant monitoring. "We ate with plastic," writes Kaysen of McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor and eventually a self-educated writer. She also learned to live with her own distinctive personality. "There's a great, long literary tradition of being off your rocker," she says wryly. (Indeed, The Bell...
...telegenic. Every successful American team sport is now made-for-TV (plenty of close-ups, replays and time-outs). Soccer isn't. The last-row aerial shots of the huge field make the action look like an infested picnic viewed from a helicopter...
...Fourth of July reminds me of long, dusky twilight evenings filled with conversation among friends I had seen all summer. It was a tradition while I was in high school to go out to the lake with a picnic basket and lots of Avon's Skin So Soft. (The mosquitos in Dallas are larger than most birds in Massachusetts). The fireworks lit up the modern skyline of downtown and reflected onto the lake. If we could successfully fend off the mosquitos and avoid the ants, we usually had a good time...