T
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T
I read an interesting review of this DVD set here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2144181/
I suppose if that link ever became inoperative in the future it could be found by searching within:
http://www.slate.com/
I think a lot of it touches on topics of interest to many tikiphiles. Let me cut and paste a few lines from it:
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Not one of the six films in The Tarzan Collection (Warner Home Video) is very good, but the unit of adventures reveals much about our naive conception of "purity" as it arrives in popular culture, where "something wild" always offers an answer to the problems and dilemmas that attend modern living.
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He has an unpolluted consciousness in which everything is upfront and clear as the summer sun. Underneath it all, of course, is a sense of sex and love that cannot exist in Europe with the same kind of freedom. That might well have been the attraction of the series for adults...
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One cannot hope to comprehend the curving path of American popular culture unless the visions of paradise lost and paradise regained are assessed.
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