The designer, who is 35 and lives in Hell's Kitchen, sews one-of-a-kind dresses directly on her customers, typically dousing the garments with oils for an aromatherapy effect.
That's a hell of a bargain, kind of.
Witnesses described the brief, fiery flight of AF 4590 as a vision of hell or a kind of bomb, in flames from the time it rolled down the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport until it smashed three minutes later into a tiny, wooden hotel.
(Think about it: the Bible's versions of Heaven and Hell are a kind of dystopian fiction in itself. A book talking about what happens next if we keep f@ing up the way we have been? Just saying).
Although he has a reputation for being remote, even reclusive, he also has a public persona as a dandyish hell raiser, a kind of exemplar of baronial boho.
If not hell, that is a kind of purgatory.
Overnight at Mendoza's camp, Tanner dreams, and we enter the "Don Juan in Hell" sequence -- a kind of lofty academic bull session often omitted in productions -- in which the sworn bachelor Tanner and other characters portray their counterparts in the life of Don Juan, with Mendoza as Lucifer.
From the perspective of a Christian who believes the world is governed by supernatural warfare, these hell houses are a kind of public service, akin to car-crash footage being used to scare teenagers in driver's ed.
While the plot is obviously improbable even the most amateur demonologist knows that fell deities are not easily moved by human whims—I found myself most skeptical about the fact that the MC never even considers sleeping with all, or at least most, of the hell-princes as a kind of last hurrah.
