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According to the credits Fur is "inspired" by Patricia Bosworth's sober, well-researched and touching 1984 biography of Diane Arbus, the photographer who specialized in making indelible images of the freakish-giants, dwarfs, Siamese twins and the like-in mid-20th century America. The filmmakers, in an on-screen foreword, say that what we are about to see is "a film that invents characters and situations that reach beyond reality to express what might have been Arbus' inner experience on her extraordinary path...
Gupta’s photography captures this sense of dilatory movement by usually leaving one body part hanging in the air, in mid-action. A series of three stills taken in quick succession leaves a large naked torso hanging in the foreground while Hughes struts behind...
...unfortunately and inaccurately-named genre—calling New Jersey part of the “heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...
...good way to start would be by doing away with the meaningless (sub)-zero to mid-twenties numbers that identify women’s clothing sizes but do not correspond to any actual part of a woman’s body. Obviously, wearing a size two does not mean that one’s waist is two inches in circumference. Instead, clothing companies should make the switch to the practices of men’s sizes—base the numbers on waist and height measurements. That way, women will have a consistent, concrete basis through which to understand their...
...career as a spy. He then moved to Florida and started a small local newspaper before getting into politics. He won a seat in Congress in 1988 and eventually became intelligence committee chairman, a post from which Bush plucked him to become CIA director after Tenet stepped down in mid...