Word: horror
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...coexisted so vividly with a love of extreme delicacy, of febrile and evanescent beauty, of consolingly elegant effects? Not until Leonardo--and not after him either, one is tempted to add. He dwelt on chaos and social collapse with morbid delight: the end of the world was his private horror movie or would have been if the 15th century had had movies. In his descriptions of imagined catastrophes one reads Leonardo piling on the special effects to make concrete what neither he nor anyone else had seen, his language struggling to break the constraints of reality: weeping, wailing, cannibalism...
...detail." Despite offers from several luxury-goods groups, Blahnik, 60, still owns his own company. By remaining relatively small - production is so limited that many retailers are turned away - Blahnik has what he values most: freedom. "Can you imagine being told 'You have to do this?'" he asks in horror. "The greatest luxury is being free." Free to do the shoes for films like Moulin Rouge, if his friend, set designer Catherine Martin, rings. And free to give it all up to design for just one woman. "If Marie Antoinette called me to go to Paris to make shoes...
...weapon. In Afghanistan, it was the Predator, the unmanned drone that would loiter, invisibly, over the battlefield before unleashing a Hellfire missile on an unsuspecting target. The Gulf War marked the debut of precision-guided munitions, and in Vietnam helicopters came of age. World War II gave us the horror of nuclear weapons, and World War I introduced the tank. If there's a second Gulf War, get ready to meet the high-power microwave...
...George Stevens. The Messiah has been portrayed with stolid reverence (in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) and Surrealist blasphemy (Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or). Often he sings: in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, in a born-again Bollywood musical and in the Canadian kung-fu horror comedy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...
...small courtroom to testify. Through tears and clenched teeth, they summoned up painful memories of the night of Oct. 23, when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord-Ost (North-East), then found themselves immersed in a real-life tableau that unfolded in horror. "My late husband always joked that musicians and prostitutes will be safe under any regime," says Valentina Khramtsova, widow of Fyodor Khramtsov, a trumpet player in the show's orchestra. "Little did he know that this regime would kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages...