Word: existences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greed, as Stroheim's masterpiece and one of the highest-echelon Establishment classics, is known only in a version one-quarter the length of the original. Rumors-and-little-else have kept alive the hope of seeing the complete 40 reels someday--prints have been said to exist in secret vaults from New Mexico to Denmark. And Greed is only one of 250 films on the American Film Institute's "preliminary rescue list" of films which do not exist in America on 35mm acetate stock...
...come years later: when all of Air Mail's owners are long-dead and the property comes into public domain, then, and only then, can the AFI make use of the print, make it available for study and screening. In the meantime, however, they know it does exist and that they will someday be able to make its existence known...
Some more speculation: Babe's use of film and other media conflicts with his rather pedestrian notion of a crowd of puppets--clown-like figures unable to stand straight who exist only insofar as they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...
...Gordon involved a second, more radical premise--that the University couldn't accept a bad man's money, even for uses of its own. The reasoning leads down a path to nihilism. Is Rockefeller Foundation money, considering how it was originally made, clean or tainted? Could the universities exist at all if they accepted funds with a strict eye to moral purity...
...said that he had heard the Boston Sound "doesn't exist," and that he was "in love with Ed Sanders of the Fugs...