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...growing amount of evidence suggests that whenever viral infection leads to cancer or chronic disease, some sort of breakdown or weakness of the immune system plays a contributing role. For instance, organ-transplant patients whose immune systems have been suppressed by antirejection drugs have a greatly increased risk of developing virus-related malignancies. "There is a very intimate relationship between viruses and immunity," says Dr. Thomas Merigan of Stanford's school of medicine. "If our immunity is a little deficient for one reason or another, then we are more likely to have progressive disease...
...Busch-Reisinger's "bucolic" locale, its small size and relaxed atmosphere--things which make it one of those rare student retreats so essential to the preservation of one's sanity come finals. I, for one, will sorely miss lunching in the Busch-Reisinger's sunny courtyard, attending organ recitals in Kuhn Hall, and dropping in to peruse the gallery on a rainy afternoon. If the administration needs more office space, why not lump a few more concrete slabs atop the Holyoke Center--surely no one would object on aesthetic grounds; but why not keep the Busch-Reisinger what...
...backlash of this psychosexual tug-of-war is a devestating assault on social mores. The underside of Jeffrey and Sandy's courtship is sadomasochistic sexual initiation, and the institute of marriage is lampooned by intentionally overbearing organ music. Though Lynch seems deadset on satirizing the family, Blue Velvet exudes a romanticism for it akin to that of National Velvet. Perhaps he's saying you can regurgitate your cake and eat it too. Pardon...
...which is to say that Blue Velvet is in no sense a realistic film. It is not modernist camp either. Lynch believes every bit as much in the redemptive power of teen love -- with families miraculously restored and two kids kissing to the crooning of a wedding-chapel organ -- as he does in the force of evil. He and his film will surely be reviled, but as an experiment in expanding cinema's dramatic and technical vocabulary, Blue Velvet demands respect...
...last, but when he came to Brahm's Lullaby, he froze. "Marge!" he begged, and she appeared from the kitchen and placed his hands. "You've got it now," she said. "You sure?" he asked, and then played it fine. Albert Tesch, the town plumber, came in on the organ next and offered a sweet Carolina Moon and If I Loved You. Then in the course of an hour and a quarter they all returned in various combinations and played other tunes. The audience was effusive with its applause...