Word: vertigo
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...that seminal horror-movie text. In Phantom of the Paradise and Home Movies, he displayed an impish, impudent sense of humor that recalls Hitchcock's macabre comedy The Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power of obsessive love. In plot skeleton and flesh tones, De Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political...
...this defenseless animal at rest at last. And twice De Palma exhibits his favorite technique to suggest confusion and resolution: the camera describes circles-four, six, a dozen-around his characters, ribboning them in place to force them to confront their destinies. The viewer must share their turmoil-feel vertigo...
...salutary. In spite of prolonged training on the ground, many of the cosmonauts could not hold their food down in the early days of a flight. Some had trouble getting to sleep, and were often awakened by the spacecraft's clattering and creaking. Others complained of fatigue and vertigo. In a revealing new book, Red Star in Orbit (Random House; $12.95), James Oberg offers some trenchant quotes from the flight diary of Salyut Cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin, who in three trips spent just short of a year in space. Writes Ryumin of his shaky introduction to space travel: "Looking into...
...most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross...
...idea for it came in 1972, when Art Historian and Picasso Expert William Rubin was visiting the artist in his villa at Mougins, in the south of France. In the sculpture-jammed studio, on the ground floor of the house, Rubin recalls, "I almost had a sense of vertigo. There was so much invention contained in so small an area. I thought to myself: There should be a really great Picasso show that combines Picasso's own holdings with things he let out of the studio." The following year, Rubin offered to clear the whole Museum of Modern...