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...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...female form than the other pieces in the show. "Nudes to the Nth" leaves behind identifiable femininity for a rich, mysterious world where skin is no longer an indication of human presence, let alone female presence. This transcendence, oddly, seems to me a wonderfully non-feminine, un-self-conscious ideal. It bodes well for the time when artists like Cindy Sherman will be set aside and people will ask deeper questions about what it means to be female...
...Camarillo Brillo'' as a political sage, I think he has a point. Flamboyance, pizzazz and showbiz skills have eclipsed policy savvy as chief prerequisites for national politics, and politicians have changed their strategies as a result. This makes perfect sense to me. Only major caffeine abuse could keep me conscious through a policy guru's lecture on the tax code, but if the same wonk dons a pair of shades and blows a sax, I'll pay a cover charge. He might even get me to vote...
...discovery of Junior's body. As Gail tries to help her husband, Nora talks incessantly, theorizing about calling 911, about the seriousness of Junior's bruises, about her relationship with Gail and her other two daughters. She talks Junior to his feet and leaves him, bloody and semi-conscious, to dance while waiting for the ambulance...
...least culpable members of final clubs--the ignorant initiates. Initiates are the most sympathetic of all final club members. They just want to be cool, to have a place to party--and if it means drinking until they pass out, so be it. They aren't yet a conscious part of the perpetuation of elitism and sexism that characterizes final clubs...