GRGR(28): Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont

[David Morris]

>From: Jeremy Osner
>
>First words of the new book: "Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont are in the
>curly-Cuvillies drawing-room of somebody's palatial home." (What, pray
>tell, does "curly-Cuvillies" mean?) This is Slothrop's dream.


Cuvilliès, François de
1695-1768, French architect, decorator, and engraver. He introduced French 
ROCOCO decoration into Germany. His Residenz-Theater (1751-53) and 
Amalienburg pavilion, in the park of Nymphenburg, both at Munich, represent 
the apex of German rococo decoration.


>Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont -- they are nice symbols, I think, for
>Elect and Preterite.

I gotta agree w/ Paul, here.  B.D. & M.D. represent the PROPER.  That awful 
buzzing sound (is it a kazoo?) is the intrusion of the IMPROPER into their 
world, and Slothrop's dream.

http://www.oxford.net/~gmarx/filmsmargaret.html
http://www.keyconnect.com/alexfilmsoc/afs-03-03/afs-03-03-2.html

DM


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