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"Here you had the most wholesome, upstanding media you can imagine, and meanwhile offstage is the most mechanized bloodbath in history," he said.
a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)
It's part of the wholesome old tradition equating Goodness and Truth with Beauty, particularly the beauty of women.
Once regarded as a low habit, gambling is now generally treated as wholesome entertainment in all states but two.
But we do know that deep beneath our surface approval of the wholesome worldwide tide of luxury commerce that keeps the fashion business afloat--boosting economies, promoting employment and cultural exchange, enriching the media with new material and the visual arts with new scope--it is all about sex of a very old-fashioned and dirty-minded kind.