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...secret of Hustle & Flow's appeal is that it's a conventional dream movie with a realistic surface--a marshmallow dipped in grit. With its muddy color palette, the film looks as if it has been painted on velvet. But the plot is pure wish fulfillment. DJay gets transformed from no-gooder to go-getter by beautiful music (when he's moved to tears by a church choir). Then there's the Rocky factor. That movie, about a bum turned hero, was a happy pill after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. Brewer sees his film as a return...
...face on Mount Rushmore; in the 1940s, Aaron Copland's magisterial Lincoln Portrait debuted; in the 1950s, Carl Sandburg held a joint session of Congress rapt with his speech that began, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is hard as rock and soft as a drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." In 1963, TIME put Lincoln on the cover of its 40th-anniversary issue, "The Individual in America," and christened him the embodiment...
...faithful gather in a strange and bracing ritual. A high-camp priest of an emcee announces weekly events and milestones: a birthday, say, or a new record for consecutive attendance. The "virgins" in the congregation--those making their first visit--are baptized with incantatory catcalls. Then, in the velvet darkness of the blackest night, rises the communal cry: "Let there be lips!" And lo, there are lips, big ruby-red ones on the theater screen, intoning an invitation to "the late-night double-feature picture show." The voice of Rocky Horror is heard in the land...
...third video, discovered inside one of the Marcoses' semiofficial New York residences, showed Imelda, in black velvet and diamonds, as hostess at a dinner party for Saudi Arabian Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi in a plush Manhattan town house. "You have contributed a lot," says her guest in a gallant toast. "History will judge...
Although scientists will be interpreting Giotto's data for months to come, Horst Keller, principal investigator of the camera team, announced some preliminary results. Halley's nucleus appeared to be 9.4 miles long and at least 2.5 miles wide, he said, and the surface, "velvet black and very irregular, with an indentation in the middle, like a peanut or a potato." On one side of the nucleus were what appeared to resemble nozzles, spewing out one minor and two major jets of gas and dust. Keller was puzzled by the blackness of the nucleus, which suggested that there is little...