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We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. ↗
It was from a weekly visit to the cinema that you learned (or tried to learn) how to strut, to smoke, to kiss, to fight, to grieve. Movies gave you tips about how to be attractive (...). But whatever you took home from the movies was only part of the larger experience of losing yourself in faces, in lives that were not yours - which is the more inclusive form of desire embodied in the movie experience. The strongest experience was simply to surrender to, to be transported by, what was on the screen ↗
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗
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