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EROTIC, BRUTAL, horrifying, and singularly comic, Blue Velvet marks an awesome return to form for director Lynch. In the course of his relatively brief career he has given us Eraserhead, an unsung underground classic, The Elephant Man, a bittersweet beauty-and-the-beast parable, and Dune, a $40 million dollar turtlewaxed Edsel. In Blue Velvet Lynch demonstrates with grace and the sheer momentum of genius that he is our most valuable, audacious and unabashed cinematic exorcist. He takes fear, his and ours, and smears it on the big screen. His canvas is dazzling, replete with hyperorganic imagery and an almost...
...equally alert, is abstracted as pork- belly futures? Humans are, of course, aggressive carnivores with unusual powers of rationalization. They are also unpredictable in their attachments. Serpell tells of a Texas hairdresser whose four-week-old daughter was killed by the family Rottweiler. Her response after hearing that the beast would have to be destroyed: "I can always have another baby but I can't replace my dog Byron...
Emotional ties between man and beast are well documented, although locating the roots of these bonds is a matter of speculation. Cats and dogs, says Serpell, have characteristics compatible with humans. The wolf, a forerunner of today's dog, has strong pack instincts, an attribute that made attachment to early human groups relatively easy. Cats are highly territorial, making them suitable pets for the permanently settled. Both species share the desirable trait of eliminating their wastes outside their dens. Less tangible is the "cute response." Serpell's sources suggest that the pudgy features of all young mammals elicit sympathetic...
...deeply mystical power in the names we give things and in the process of naming. God's first act after saying, "Let there be light" was to "call the light Day, and the darkness he called Night." One of his first acts after creating Adam was to bring every beast of the field so that Adam could give them names, "and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof...
...time necessary to secure the approval fromthe Pudding "is the nature of the beast,"Zeckhauser said. "It's a matter of touching allthe bases," she said...