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...Antwerp Mesh, while women might prefer the Bruges Lace's genteel paisley (the eyewear starts at $460, and optical lenses are also available). As with most fashion trends, slatted sunglasses are nothing new. Theo's line was inspired by the Inuit, who have worn wooden masks with a single slit to block the northern sunlight for hundreds of years. That's not a look likely to hit the department stores anytime soon, but Theo's designs may well prove a shady business winner. www.theo.be
...suburbs of Washington State during the mid-1970s, Black Hole evokes that era's great teenage exploitation movies with its attention to atmospheric detail. It even begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog. Shaggy-haired Keith digs the fact that he has been partnered with the "total fox" Chris Rhodes. But as he stares into the spilled amphibian guts he becomes overwhelmed by a dark premonition: "I felt like I was looking into the future?and the future looked pretty messed up." Overwhelmed...
...meter reticulated python. Even in the dim light of the slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic buckets full of blood to await skinning, its vibrant colors already fading...
...retrieved from the graves of ancestors, the skulls were a central part of tribal culture. No youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden slit drum. And few family houses were complete without the skull of an ancestor, decorated with clay features, shell eyes and real hair to create a lifelike image of the deceased...
...These unique, macabre artifacts were retained in villages for decades - the heads of enemies decorated and stored in the men's house or spirit house; those of ancestors often kept in special beds in their descendants' huts. But now many of the slit drums and skull cradles are empty, for new European head-hunters have been prowling the river regions, ethnic art dealers armed with dollars and euros more deadly to native culture than any dagger. "These items are going to private homes," says p.n.g. National Museum director Soroi Eoe, the man responsible for thwarting the theft of cultural artifacts...