Last night Mr. TC and I went to see Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” at the Landmark Loew’s Jersey, a restored 1929 movie palace in Jersey City. Watching this masterpiece on the “big screen” for the first time, I was able to appreciate it more than ever before — its compositions, its use of light and shadow, its wealth of detail.
Speaking of detail, my eye was caught by one small object in a particular scene…
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I recently wrote a post about my favorite winter fragrances for Now Smell This.
You can read it here.
This is just one of many, many significant images from the past week, but it’s one that really bothers me, for small reasons that are indicative of a larger situation.
Kellyanne Conway described her Inauguration Day outfit as “Trump revolutionary wear.”
And media outlets quickly picked up on the fact that Conway’s tricolor coat was a Gucci ready-to-wear design that cost $3600, but no one seems to have looked more deeply into its back-story.
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Reading: Another Tana French novel — The Secret Place
Video: The final season of “Sherlock”
Audio: This week, lots of Bauhaus (see “Pleasure,” below)
Drink: Some bottles of lambic that a friend brought over as a New Year’s Day gift
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I recently wrote a fragrance review of Dasein Winter Nights for Now Smell This.
You can read it here
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