Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from me to impede the inexorable march of progress; but I can't help wondering just who (aside from those administrators who are slated to take over the building) stands to gain from the transferal of the Busch-Reisinger's collection to some underground vault. Granted, the stuff will probably last forever down there; yet is that what the Museum's benefactors intended? Does one, in fact, create and amass works of art for the sole purpose of preserving them...
...amazing stuff was just beginning...
...first glance Queenie Pie hardly seems the stuff from which either operas or hit musicals are made. In storied Harlem, an annual beauty contest for hairdressers is under way, and the proud, haughty Queenie Pie (Teresa Burrell) is on the verge of her 13th consecutive title. Unexpectedly, she is challenged by an upstart from New Orleans, the leggy Cafe Olay (Patty Holley), and is forced to examine her arid life. There is an extended dream sequence on a mythic island, during which Queenie Pie discovers where her heart really lies. At the end, victorious, she magnanimously gives up her crown...
...disturbing stuff, to say the least. But Blue Velvet is a profoundly moral film. The audience's agony is to a greater degree Jeffrey's; he must resort to Booth's brand of sexual brutality to know not only Vallens, but himself. Lynch sees these rites of passage as horrific and scarifying, but inevitable, primal, essentially human. In a way Lynch is at war with repression; his heroes are superegos in a relentlessly allid world...
Enough of the scientific stuff. How much does it cost, and what does it feel like...