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The Beautiful and Damned
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and Southern Europe.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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 television through after-hours and power.
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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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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Southern Europe.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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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...
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music 2000s
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Four movements of orchestral post-rock. The apocalypse rendered beautiful.
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.
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Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.