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Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

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Molly Haskell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 29
Film Critic
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Charlotte
North Carolina
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