Do the ski gloves fit?

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The title “Do the ski gloves fit?” is the famous target sentence from the CUNY audio-video corpus, which, when separated from the masker in a reverberant environment, leads to graduation. They don’t yet fit properly.

• Pet Shop Boys have long been the pillars of irony, mercurial in every other aspect having re-invented their music with every album. The title pictoon captures half the leitmotif of their ouevre — it’d get a bit crowded if both Tennant and Lowe’s avatars from each album were to show up — and predates Yes (2009) and the Brits 2009.
• Psychologist Kris Kelvin leads the apparition of his wife Hari to commit hara kiri, hoping against hope hopen that apparitions may be burnt by ghastly conflagarations. Solaris insists on tormenting the denizens of the space station, crucifying their conscience, and reminding them that the soul demands answers, even in outer space.
  
• This car is radioactive: carrying a neutron bomb payload — stolen from Los Alamos labs, with a fed reward of $20,000 (this is the 80’s) — that literally liquidates people leaving buildings intact. In “Repo Man,” there are sundry facts of fictional life strewn around casually: encrypted phone lines, the driving-to-dumbness proportionality, weirdness-to-steering-spaceships proportionality — yes, strewn around casually in a non-story. For statisticians, this movie has a message: A statistician’s life is always intense.
  
• The collage borrows thrills from a poster for “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, the sci-fi thriller that grapples with the demons — literal and metaphorical — of misused science. Watch it to see how far aliens can go to save us from ourselves and solarbonite.
  
• The detective emotes with von Braun’s daughter in this scene from Alphaville, the dystopian movie from Jean-Luc Godard about a city controlled by a purely objective rational being, the alpha 60 computer designed by Pyrofessor von Braun. Watch it to see how the detective breaks the system by introducing emotions in a world run solely by reason and elopes with von Braun’s daughter.
• A police cruiser lifts off in Bladerunner, Ridley Scott’s magnum opus that smacked me in the face and asked “What’s so special about intelligence?” Watch it to be paranoid about who who is an android.