"the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness" --dictionary.com
Eraserhead (1977)
David Lynch's first feature-length film, a surrealist "dream of dark and troubling things."
David Lynch
filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, and writer. He directed The Elephant Man, Dune, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and created Twin Peaks.
Paul Mauriat ~ Love is Blue (1968)
became the only number-one hit by a French lead artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in America --by request
strain
"To exert, use, or tax to the utmost" --thefreedictionary.com
Norman Vincent Peale
minister and author who is best known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking --wikipedia
COVID vaccine boosters, mix'n'match
Request: It is 'safe' (or harmless) to receive a Moderna or Pfizer booster after receiving the Johnson and Johnson covid vaccination???
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (1997)
Documentary. An ancient meditation technique is instituted at a troubled Indian prison. Inmates undergo profound change. --imdb.com
house music
created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture in the 1980s --wikipedia
House of Gucci (2021)
Lady Gaga; Adam Driver; Jared Leto; Jeremy Irons; Salma Hayek; Al Pacino
Encanto (2021)
Disney film follows a family, the Madrigals, helmed by a matriarch whose children and grandchildren receive magical gifts from "the miracle" that helps them serve their community in rural Colombia—except for Mirabel Madrigal --wikipedia
inflexible
"unwilling to change or compromise" -- Google dictionary
postmodernism
defined by an attitude of skepticism toward what it describes as the grand narratives and ideologies of modernism, as well as opposition to epistemic certainty and the stability of meaning --wikipedia
percent of reporting that qualifies as "fake news"
Calibrated: all reporting worldwide, conservative reporting, and liberal reporting. Also: "fake news" thresholds for fair and balanced reporting, inherently biased reporting, radically biased reporting, and propaganda.