Word: vertigo
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...Mermaid? is dedicated to Renoir, but actually this is Truffaut?s Hitchcock film. Like ?Vertigo,? it?s story of a man in love with two women who are the same woman, and one of whom is dead - and who finally decides that he can love the second woman even though she impersonated the first woman and was responsible for her death. (Hope that?s clear.) But Woolrich?s novel came first...
...with the singing; Felicia M. Sonmez ’05, the production’s musical director, deserves considerable credit. The set—Venice reinterpreted as a forest of candy-cane mooring poles with clotheslines of striped gondolieri shirts hanging out to dry in between—produces vertigo in the most whimsical way possible. Alan Symonds’ lighting work, with the assistance of Hana R. Alberts ’06—who is also a Crimson editor—is quite good. Costume work by Naomi E. Straus ’04 and Abigail K. Joseph...
...Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman and various (Vertigo; 1994) This particular volume of Neil Gaiman's extremely popular "Sandman" series best exemplifies why it crosses boundaries of genre and gender appeal. When handed the keys to hell, Morpheus, the king of Dreams, contends with his immortal siblings - including punky sister Death - as well as characters from mythology, literature and history...
THAT the pummelings left him reliant on 11 prescription medicines for vertigo, mood disorders and "scalp tenderness." (The complaint does not note how many drugs both of them may have been on when he decided to enter the marriage...
...purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...