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Beautiful but Empty
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Young & Beautiful
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Dancer from the Dance
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and longing.
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The Beautiful and Damned
1920s
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2010s
Maximalist hip-hop as baroque opera. Excess, ambition, and the abyss.
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Colorful
2010s
Two horny college slackers and a beautiful professor. A frustrated TV reporter. A sexy track star and her tempted coach. And a high school girlzilla that’s the size of the Empire State building. Colorful! contains over 50 vignettes of men, women, and the pursuit of… well, you’ll just have to see. From hotties on sub...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
1980s
My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 film from United Kingdom and Australia, associated with Stephen Frears. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1750s
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 essay or critical text by Edmund Burke, linked to Kingdom of Great Britain and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argumen...
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Television
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series
2017 Japanese anime television series
Books 1980s
The Transit of Venus
Follows the story of two beautiful orphaned sisters newly arrived in England from Australia.
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Music 1990s
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Ambient techno's defining statement. Beautiful, alien, and timeless electronic music.
Anime 2000s
Paradise Kiss
On her way home from school, Yukari Hayasaka is approached by a weird-looking guy who starts looking at her body intently. He's got blond spiky hair, a spiked choker, and multiple piercings on his ears and face. She wants nothing to do with him, and runs away, only to bump into a very tall and beautiful purple-haire...
Film 1990s
Life is Beautiful
Life is Beautiful is a 1997 film from Italy, associated with Roberto Benigni. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.