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...named the dominant trend in '80s music because they're afraid to: it's disco, and all the critics know it. They know it and fear it. It is the strange uncle who lives in the attic and can't be acknowledged...
Soon enough, there is. Also mousetraps and bear traps, corpses in the attic and the bedroom, the glass of milk from Suspicion and the severed finger from The 39 Steps. Penn, who could direct this stuff in his sleep, hasn't. The director of Bonnie and Clyde and the Broadway thriller Wait Until Dark still knows how to slap a scene to life. In the triple role of a dead woman, her scheming sister and the plucky gal who must literally act to save her own life, Steenburgen finds a few shadings in each caricature. But the script (by Marc...
Lacroix discovered his vocation rummaging through his grandmother's attic in Arles, where he lost himself amid stacks of fashion magazines dating back to the 19th century. One day at Sunday lunch Lacroix was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said he: "Christian Dior." He attended the University of Montpellier, studying classics and art history, and then went to Paris to train as a museum curator at the Ecole du Louvre. Then, in 1973, he attended a party largely because he had been told the food would be good. There he met his wife Francoise Rosenthiel...
...only one pushing pouf this year. Ungaro, Cardin and Lagerfeld, among others, showed versions of the bubble. (Saint Laurent, who was blowing fashionable bubbles when Lacroix was in his grandmother's attic, showed an exquisite but conventional collection.) But not only did Lacroix pioneer the new silhouette, he is ineffably its presiding spirit...
...works or directions. And that would certainly appear to be the case with Wright Morris' Collected Stories, 1948-1986. Morris is, after all, one of the most distinguished and honored living American men of letters, author of 19 novels (including Love Among the Cannibals and The World in the Attic), five books of his own photographs and texts, four collections of essays and three volumes of memoirs...