Aficionados of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" will be treated to a scrapbook prop created for the film and an exploration of the strange haunting at Borley Rectory that inspired both this film and Sarah Waters' "The Little Stranger".Detractors have always scoffed at the genre's curlicue excesses: lustful vampires, haunted castles, zombies, desolate, menacing landscapes and trailing black gowns.
How would this story play without its Caribbean curlicue?
It takes place under the domed glass roof (the largest in Europe) of the Grand Palais in a hall ringed with sinuous, cast-iron Art Nouveau balconies and curlicue stairways.
The furnishings gilded armchairs, crystal chandelier, curlicue mouldings—hark back to the 18th century.
There was nowhere to sit but at the table in the breakfast nook, avocado Formica with legs and matching chairs made of white-painted curlicue iron.
Now, you can read that moment as a mere curlicue, at the story's edge; she means that the boss had it coming.
Burton is a master of the curlicue, the sine curve, the zigzag; her colors morph from mood to mood, unafraid of darkness and drama.
The memory spawned the sculpture "Tumbleweed" (1963-66), a tangle of chromed barbed wire around three crossed wooden beams, threaded with a curlicue of glowing blue neon tubing.
"Sincerely" made any e-mail sound like one of those shady Nigerian money schemes, which ooze with "sincerely"s and "Dearest Madame"s and every other curlicue of faux propriety.
In almost every painting, a single detail undercuts the regimented order of the whole — a curving sliver of acid orange, a stripe that slips the ranks of its neighbors and kinks into a curlicue.
No acid trips, no homemade special effects, not a curlicue of camp.
