On one interpretation, all this may add up to nothing too sinister.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan's populist judges

The late Faisal Husseini, whose family owns the land it stands on, was the benign king of a castle that was packed with political and welfare offices, plus visiting foreigners: it was too open for the sinister goings-on that Israelis now hint at.

ECONOMIST: Israel and the Palestinians

The sinister chords from tracking scenes in The Man who Knew Too Much reemerge in Vertigo, as do ghostly organ sonorities from The Wrong Man.

NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

Within months, alleging sinister pressures, he fled to the United States, only to be held by customs officers for carrying too many undeclared dollars.

ECONOMIST: Mexico