Category: Ephemera, 1983
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Wednesday
“Wednesday” is over so quickly that it may take a few listens for the grim desperation of its lyrics to register.
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Modernaire
The Modernaires’ screen time in Purple Rain adds up to only about 15 seconds, but it’s a memorable 15 seconds.
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Vibrator
A bold demand for a woman’s right to sexual pleasure, filtered through the distinctly 20th-century male anxiety of being replaced in the bedroom by a machine.