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Repellent & Alluring. At 1 p.m. Zurich time, Modestini, Feidler and their 490-year-old companion boarded Swissair Flight 100. Ginevra occupied a $417 window seat. Beneath the suitcase tab was a dial, similar to those used on meat thermometers, indicating the temperature deep within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted...
...said the store has long exercised strict self-censorship and that he was sympathetic to the intent of Mahoney's motion. Nevertheless, Harvey hasn't let police recommendations go unchallenged; some of the buttons they suggested discarding are still on display. Of 137 different buttons in the Truc's window last week, only about 10 have gone...
...Long live Theresa" read a sign taped to the outside of Hazen's window Saturday night. Meanwhile, Theresa dined next door--at Elsie...
...theme of photography as an escape from reality is not a new one. In Hitchcock's Rear Window, the crippled photographer (James Stewart) uses his telephoto lenses to spy on his neigbors. He becomes involved with their problems in order to avoid coping with his own fear of life and an impending marital commitment. Through an ultimately therapeutic encounter with violent evil, Stewart can finally understand and solve his problems...
Pumpkin Idol. The rest of the analysis is equally imaginative. When Chambers climbs through a window (in the course of his tempestuous courtship of his future wife) he is not climbing through a window, he is "symbolically re-enacting the fantasy of his birth and the near-loss of his mother." His gift for self-dramatization and his vivid imagination are turned into alleged proof that nothing he said could be true...