Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and rendering the terror inherent in commonplace realities. B...

"I am out to give the public good, healthy, mental shake-ups," the late great film director Alfred Hitchcock once said back in 1936. The quote is taken from Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews, a collection of interviews, essays, and...

"NOT LONG AGO," e-mails reader Stephanie Martin, "I read in an admiring article that a chef had achieved notoriety for some dish - which made me wonder if everyone who ate it became sick." Notoriety and notorious are needed in their negative roles, she...

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Osvaldo Romo, a security agent who became a symbol of torture and repression under Gen. Augusto Pinochet's former military dictatorship, died in prison Wednesday, authorities said. He was 70.Romo died of heart and respiratory problems, the tional Corrections Service said.He was serving two prison terms...

The elegant iron-railing balconies were once catwalks where guards stood watch over the inmates to make sure they didn't try to break out. If you look closely, you can still see the outline of the holes from the iron bars on the windows.At the newly...