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Beauty is as central a preoccupation as ever, if anything more so, but the preoccupation has much more of a narcissistic, self-pampering quality and less of a desperation to make up for some irrecoverable, primal imperfection.
In form, it's a showbizzy patter song, but because of its lightning tempo (which makes the words barely intelligible) and the steady repetition of "bitch" on the downbeat, it has the primal force of an incantation:
This year, there are three animated movies alone that deserve to be on a top-10 list-- South Park , The Iron Giant , and Toy Story 2 . (And one other, Princess Mononoke , that has moments of epic grandeur and images so primal they could be lifted from a nightmare, or cause one.)
White Heat features two of Cagney's greatest primal tantrums: in prison, when he finds out that his mother is dead and moans like a maniac; and at a chemical refinery, where he screams, "Top of the world, Ma!"
When she hears herself saying that being with her husband is "like being with papa," she pauses for a second, then flashes her eyes with something close to a recognition of primal sin, utters a sound somewhere between a hysterical giggle and a shriek of horror, and rushes across the room as if in flight from her own words.