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When a generous friend, Riquet (Fabrizio Rongione)--the only one she has ever had, the film implies--falls into quicksand and screams for help, you can see Rosetta's thought processes: If he dies, his job will open up, she'll get it, and she'll be "normal."
Thanks to the baroque vestiges of Senate procedure, however, Lott and company still have other weapons at their disposal: the ice pick, the poisoned umbrella tip, the exploding cigar, the James Bond shark tank, the Batman buzz saw, quicksand, car bombs, a variety of slow-acting toxins, the complete works of Joyce Carol Oates, and their bare hands.
The lower level of the Guggenheim SoHo displays the tinkering side of Rauschenberg's nature, the works he made in collaboration with engineers--the star item there is unquestionably Mud Muse (1968-71), a vat of bentonite (an artificial clay) that bubbles and gurgles and spits, like a pool of quicksand in a Tarzan movie, triggered by a sound-activated compressed-air system.
But how can any filmmaker nowadays convey the nihilistic embrace of dope and booze and pills and do justice both to the way it felt at the time--blissfully gonzo, liberating--and the way it came to feel after everyone did too much--like quicksand?