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...Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after a sleepless night). Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style. Max might be speaking for his gifted creator...
Other fashions sweep into style later in the year, especially on college campuses. Big mitts, crew hats and candy stockings were all the rage, while boy-girl look-alikes included twin parkas, sweaters, and raccoon coat dual outfits...
America is a great country for stories these days, a circus with more attractions (fakirs, fire walkers, Oprahs, snake charmers, holy men, Geraldos) than Kipling's Grand Trunk Road of Hindustan. Life is a funny old raccoon. The raccoon works for the tabloids now but hopes to be a literary genius later...
Last week a pair of raccoon hunters led federal agents to that truck, mired to its axles in soggy woods near Rudolph's trailer in Murphy, a hamlet tucked into the southwestern corner of North Carolina. By the weekend, the FBI had enough evidence to charge Rudolph with the bombing and offer a $100,000 reward. That evidence, investigators say, includes explosives residue in the truck and in a storage shed Rudolph had rented, fibers from a blond wig like the one a witness had seen a man remove as he ran from the bombing scene, and a folding shovel...
...Mass. Ave. resident reported that someone rang the buzzer to his apartment and left a wrapped package in the vestibule with the words "Love Jill" written on it. A dead raccoon was inside the package...